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Letter "S" » sails
«Our history sings of centuries Such varying songs it sings! It starts with winds, slow moving sails, It ends with skies and wings»
Author: Catherine Cate Coblentz
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About:
History
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Keywords:
centuries,
End Of The Century,
moving,
sails,
sings,
skies,
slow-moving,
songs,
starts,
varying,
winds,
wings
«We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.»
«Wisdom sails with wind and time»
«Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
away,
catch,
catch on,
catch up with,
Did,
disappointed,
disappoints,
discover,
dream,
explore,
explored,
explores,
from the,
harbor,
harbored,
harbors,
into the wind,
now,
off,
ones,
safe,
safes,
safe harbor,
sail,
sails,
The Catch,
throw,
throwing away,
throw in,
throw off,
throw out,
throw up,
trade,
traded,
trade winds,
twenties,
twenty,
winded,
winds,
wound up,
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Occasions:
Graduation
«We rest here while we can, but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams, And we know by the morning, the wind will fill our sails to test the seams, The calm is on the water and part of us would linger by the shore, For ships are safe in harbor, but t»
Author: Michael Lille
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Keywords:
calling,
calm,
harbor,
harbored,
harbors,
linger,
lingered,
ocean,
safe harbor,
sails,
seam,
seams,
ships,
shore,
T,
The Water
«The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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About:
Optimism,
Realism
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Keywords:
adjusting,
adjusts,
complains,
expects,
optimist,
pessimist,
realist,
realists,
sails,
The Realist,
The Wind,
wind
«The Man who with undaunted toils,/ sails unknown seas to unknown soils,/ With various wonders feasts his Sight: What stranger wonders does he write?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
feasts,
sails,
seas,
soils,
toils,
undaunted,
various,
wonders
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
alone,
broken,
Burns,
confining,
destruction,
drift,
drifted,
drifts,
either,
flame,
flamed,
force,
held,
In Flames,
mid,
or else,
passion,
rudder,
ruling,
rulings,
sails,
seas,
sea a,
standstill,
toss,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
unattended