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The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.

— William Falconer

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

— Amelia Barr

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

— William Falconer

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

— Helmut Sohmen

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.

— Ami Ayalon

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

— William Falconer

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

— George William Curtis

When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be.

— Hugh Laurie

✗Opposing Perspectives

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

— Thomas Aquinas