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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
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In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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More in prosperity is reason tost than ships in storms, their helms and anchors lost.
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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
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Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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