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Letter "B" » boats
«There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.»
«Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
an island,
arrive,
boated,
boating,
boats,
continents,
island,
islands,
Islands of the,
pains,
regardless,
secluded,
send,
separated,
ships,
shores
«We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
altogether,
boats,
busied,
crying,
insisting,
manage,
Managing,
meddling,
oars,
of my own,
reverence,
superiors
«Little boats should keep near shore»
«It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
beginning,
beyond,
boated,
boating,
boats,
broken,
burned,
burned at,
burning in,
burn in,
burn out,
burn up,
curious,
end,
feeling,
goes,
matters,
mercifully,
pain,
peace,
powers,
sensation,
sort,
sorted,
sorting,
sort of,
sort out,
The Beginning,
The End
«A rising tide lifts all boats»
«These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.»
«Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Courage
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Keywords:
alike,
ancient,
boats,
calm,
chances,
extremities,
floating,
showed,
spirits,
The Sea,
trier
«Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.»
«Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.»
Author: Woody Allen
(
Actor,
Author,
Film Director,
Screenwriter)
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Keywords:
at home,
basically,
bath,
boated,
boating,
boats,
come in,
home in,
immature,
My Wife,
sank,
sink,
sink in,
The Bath,
wife