Quotes with sailors

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• And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.

  Bret Harte
  American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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• Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.

  The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare

  Bob Rae
  Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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• Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

  Edmund Waller
  English poet and politician (1606 - 1687)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• footprints
• direction
• shepherds
• galilee
• waiting
• weather

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