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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Perseverance
African Proverb

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Adversity
Louisa May Alcott

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Home
Thomas Campion

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Change
Jimmy Dean

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Goals
Fitzhugh Dodson

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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Conquest
John Dryden

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Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
Travel and Tourism
Bob Dylan

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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Freedom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
Uncategorised
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
Army and Navy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
Majority
John Kenneth Galbraith

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Adversity
Hanmer Parsons Grant

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
Thoughts and Thinking
David Hare

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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Scholars and Scholarship
Samuel Johnson

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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
Constitutions
Thomas B. Macaulay

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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Judgment and Judges
William Penn

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Reason
Alexander Pope

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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Travel and Tourism
John Enoch Powell

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.
Courage
Source Unknown

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We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
Control
Source Unknown

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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Curses
Edmund Waller

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun