Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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.
Praise the sea, on shore remain.
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.
The sea is my business.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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