The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
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