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“There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.”

“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“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 must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.”

Wells Bits Sea Grew Grew Up Tasks Philosophical Philosopher Stuck Ships Conclusion Evolve Leap Schemes Mariners

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.”

Said Christian Sleep Sea Effects Circumstances Calm Prosperity Drunk Ties Dutch Mariners Rudders

Author:William Cornelius Van Horne

“Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!”

Years Sea Battle Thousand England Native Flags Thousand Years Breeze Mariners

Book:The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

“Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.”

May Asks Wish Sea Fortune Good Fortune Wish You Tombs Kinder Mariners

Author:Plato

“Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.”

May Art Certain Study Sea Ships Compass Port Arriving Diligent Mariners Rudders

Book:A Treatise on Painting:

Source: A Treatise on Painting:

“Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.”

Mean Christian Stars Sea Ocean Glory Mary Port Intercession Mariners

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“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.”

“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”

“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”

Life Character Courses Stars Sea Advice Ideals Mariners Character Education

Author:Carl Schurz

“We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything.”