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.

  Source: 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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