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«Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.»
Author: August Hare
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Thought
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mankind, sail, sailing vessel, The Wind, vessel, wind
«Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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in the midst, midst, overwhelmed, perish, pilot, sail, ship, shipwrecked, shipwrecks, steered, steering, steers, weariness
«On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale»
«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.»
«To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.»
«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.»
«Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.»
«To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.»
«Since I grew tired of the chaseAnd search, I learned to find;And since the wind blows in my face,I sail with every wind.»
«Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! / Sail on, O Union, strong and great! / Humanity with all its fears, / With all the hopes of future years, / Is hanging breathless on thy fate!»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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breathless, great year, hanging, hopes, sail, ship, union
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