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“He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.”

Sea Gentle Sail Gale Shipwreck

Book:Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

“Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.”

Made Law Sea Mark Guides Ignorant Passengers Shipwreck Twigs Limes

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.”

Thinking Men Sea Circumstances Ambition Passing Passings Weather Carrie Globes Beaten Vessel Shipwreck

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.”

“Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.”

Stills Sea Sky Brave Rose Graves Leap Fearful Farewell Anticipate Shipwreck Overboard

Author:Lord Byron

“Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.”

Mind Dream Water Memories Dark Sea Huge Bed Decades Thrive Staying Surviving Shipwreck Deep Water Staying Power

Author:J. G. Ballard