"The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life."
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"Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness."
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"I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship."
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"The ocean is an object of no small terror."
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"The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!"
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"Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking."
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"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
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"The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective."
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"It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha."
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"My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift."
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"O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won"
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"It is time to be old To take in sail."
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"Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer."
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"A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company"
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"If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable."
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"It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil."
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"I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning."
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"Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom."
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"Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December."
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"To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand"
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