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«Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air»
Author: George Chapman | About: Spirit | Keywords: crack, drinks, filled, in low spirits, keel, keel over, low, low spirits, lustier, lusty, rapt, rough, running water, run on, sail, sails, ship, The Mast, This Life, tremble, yards
«I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.»
Author: Jimmy Dean | About: Attitude, Goals, Optimism | Keywords: adjust, adjusting, adjusts, All Change, always, can, change, destination, destinations, direction, into the wind, out of reach, reach, reach into, sails, See Change, The Wind, wind, winded, wound up
«If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.»
Author: John Enoch Powell | Keywords: bends, ends, journey, river, River The, sails, ship, sight, The River
«Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway»
Author: Roselle Mercier Montgomery | Keywords: bay, carries, sails
«He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.»
Author: William Osler (Physician) | Keywords: medicine, patients, sails, studies, uncharted
«He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.»
Author: William G. Golding (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: Nile, rides, sails, woven
«It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.»
Author: Jim Rohn (Author, Speaker) | Keywords: determines, direction, Gone With the Wind, sails, set, The Wind, wind
«Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: blasts, compass, devious, howling, opening, ripped, rip out, sails, seam, seams, tempest-tossed, tempest, tempests, The Tempest, tossed
«One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: drives, East, gale, gales, Go West, sails, West, west wind
«Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.»
Author: Euripides | About: God, Happiness | Keywords: batter, batters, brief, sails
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