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“The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.”

“(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.”

“No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.”

Knows Way Humans Doe Born Human Beings Sea Century Birth Tomorrow Eternity Average Ancestor 20th Century Puzzled Uncharted Mariners

Author:Walter Lippmann

“One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.”

Inspirational Looks Reason Funny Term Conditions Ice Trapped Sailing Observing Mariners

Author:Alec Wilkinson

“I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.”

Ifs Soul Matter Born Sun Casts Storm Gentle Boards Weary Strife Grove Shady Alluring Mariners Languish Buccaneers

Author:Mikhail Lermontov

“The sea finds out everything you did wrong.”

Sea Boat Sailing Nautical Sailing And The Sea Boats And Sailing Mariners

Author:Francis Stokes

“It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”

“Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.”

“Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner but I am never lost: there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store, here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl laid on a velvet slab, there is the plashing of faces in the aisles and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned and it is night, and the moon rows over the gentle waters of the parking lot.”

Source: A Grammar to Waking: Poems

“Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?”

Ifs Men World Giving Hands Christian Dies Heard Cry Comfort Doctors Let Me Patient Christian Inspirational Ease Idle Drowning Fireman Mariners Zion

Book:Why Revival Tarries

Source: Why Revival Tarries

“Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.”

Looks Light Night Lost Strong Dark Lord Rescue Fog Dense Beacons Gale Lighthouse Mariners Storms Of Life

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.”

“If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.”

Ifs Faces Lying Saws Excited Cleveland Mariners

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post”

Trying Posts Soccer Butchers Funny Soccer Oracles Mariners

Author:Martin Tyler

“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.”

Soul Water Risk Bounds Ships Thee Sail Exploring Reckless Steers Mariners Deep Water

Book:Leaves of Grass

Source: Leaves of Grass

“With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.”

Men Heart Home Night Stars Dark Cities Sea Feet Streets Bird Empty Wings Flight Clarity Smoke Compass Flew Mariners Empty Streets

Author:Ernest Rhys

“Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.”

Real Enough Seems America Deals Skills Achievement Ocean Discovery Crosses Accomplished Geography Explorers Columbus Mariners

Book:At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.”

Happens Law Dies Water Justice Rooms Midst Thirst Mariners Jurisprudence

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.”

Needs Sea Ships Pilots Sail Anchors Mariners

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)

“His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.”

Earth Levels Western Wave Wheels Urges Daring Smooth Bark Columbus Mariners

Author:Luigi Pulci

“...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.”

Giving Use Light Science Causes Benefits Consequence Universal Experiments Invention Sail Needles Navigation Mariners

Book:Works of Francis Bacon: 3

Source: Works of Francis Bacon: 3

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