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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
- Demosthenes

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- Dorothy Day

Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
- Henry David Thoreau

Oh Lord, have mercy,
Thy sea is so large
And my ship is so small.
– Breton fisherman's prayer

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?
– Joshua Slocum from Sailing alone around the World, 1900

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely seas and sky,
and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
– John Masefield from the poem "Sea Fever" 1902

Let me roll around the globe, let me rock upon the sea:
let me race and pant out my life with an eternal breeze
and an endless sea before!
– Herman Melville from Redburn, 1849

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether...it is to
sail or to watch it, we are going back from whence we came.
– John F. Kennedy, 1962

It is far better not to know where one is, and realize that one does not
know, than to be certain one is in a place where one is not.
– Lieutenant Barral from Digressions sur la Navigation du Cap Horn, 1827

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