It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.
Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
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