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'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

— Jim Rohn

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

— Aristotle Onassis

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

— Augustus Hare

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

— David Hare

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

— Alexander Pope

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

— Henry Van Dyke

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

— Alexander Dale Oen

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

— Louisa May Alcott

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

— Ami Ayalon

✗Opposing Perspectives

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

— Franz Grillparzer