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" Quotes and Sayings About sail

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Adjust Cannot Direct Sails
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Sail Safe Habor Catch
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Ship Sail Storm Afraid
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

War Receive Position Enemy
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Years Dream Sail Safe
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“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
Leader Adjustment Optimist Complains
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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Aim Choice Desire Doing
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Against Anchor Drift Lie
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Few Flag Most Mount
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Ever Free High Hope
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Boards Cast Compass He
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Afraid How Learning Sail
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Does Favorable Know Port
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Again Pain Part Sail
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

Cannot Depths Fathom Great
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Determines Direction Go Sails
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Dangerous Definition He Heart
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Like man Rich Sailboat Music
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Accept Defeat Goal More
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Major Communication Interact Century
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Pessimist Complains Wind Optimist
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Ocean Sea Sail Watch
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

Ssound Background Sheep Gently
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Ships Sailing Many Ports
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there a port of call where it is possible to forget.

Ships Sailing Life Painful
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For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
Sailor Love Wind Memory
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Being Bird Closest Come
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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

Beat Had Inside Me
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Environment Even Fantastic Feeling
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There is not so helpless and pitiable an object in the world as a landsman beginning a sailor's life.

Beginning Helpless Pitiable Object
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Camels Castles Clouds Like
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Love Sail Forbidden sea
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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

My purpose Holds Sail beyond Sunset
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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Flying Plain Fun Worth
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice,that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Suicide is Greatest piece Cowardice Is wrong
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Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

Money Buy Happiness Sails
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In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

Egotism Fear Life Troubled
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth

Wonderful Majority Assailed Truth
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Writing Criticism Fiction Poetry
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Only sense of ignorance makes think of smooth sail in all aspects of life.

Sense Life Smooth
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