It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.
To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.
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.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.