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Letter "S" » ship
«The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.»
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
Author: Isak Dinesen
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Writer)
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Keywords:
barrel,
barreling,
charming,
kept woman,
lighted,
mutinies,
mutiny,
powder,
powdered,
powders,
saves,
seemed,
ship,
sitting,
tale,
The Women,
torch,
torches
«I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way»
«Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness»
Author: John Calvin
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Statesman,
Theologian)
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Keywords:
in the midst,
midst,
overwhelmed,
perish,
pilot,
sail,
ship,
shipwrecked,
shipwrecks,
steered,
steering,
steers,
weariness
«I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.»
Author: John Masefield
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Keywords:
go down,
lonely,
sea,
ship,
sky,
star,
steer,
steered,
steering,
steers,
tall,
tallest,
The Lonely,
The Sea
«Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship»
«The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.»
«Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.»
Author: Walt Whitman
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Poet)
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Keywords:
bound,
dared,
deep water,
explores,
exploring,
forth,
mariner,
mariners,
not yet,
reckless,
sail,
ship,
steer,
steered,
steering,
steers,
The Deep,
waters
«Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
caught,
entered,
fishing,
forth,
go with,
immediately,
I go,
peter,
peter out,
ship,
Simon,
Simon A,
Simon Peter,
Thee,
went
«The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder»