"Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine."
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"The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing."
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"I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me."
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"Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations."
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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
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"Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus."
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"The true ship is the ship builder."
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"Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it."
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"Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable."
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"To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary."
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"A great ship asks deep water."
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"A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship."
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"Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship."
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"Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit."
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"Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness."
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"Loose lips sink ships."
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"Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you."
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"Ships are but boards, sailors but men."
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"The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile."
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"Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail."
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