It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Ships are like children: they need individual attention.
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.