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“Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.”

May God Heaven Bears Load Sail Vessel Port

Book:The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry

Source: The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry

“But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.”

Lost Heaven Breaths Sail Toil Coast Oar

Book:The Poems of William Cowper

Source: The Poems of William Cowper

“He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave; Whence those impetuous currents in the main Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

“We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.”

Knows Way Heaven Accepting Currents Dare Guides Ships Pilots Sail Steers Rudders

Book:The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

“When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.”

Thinking Men Mind Wells Heart Littles Given Heaven Space Grief Sorrow Pages Diets Great Men Denied Blank Sail Biographies Scarce

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?”

Years Heaven Friends Bounds Divides Sail Port

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”