I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, an… - Joshua Slocum
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, an…
- Joshua Slocum
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed ov… - Joshua Slocum
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed ov…
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? - Joshua Slocum
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and some… - Joshua Slocum
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and some…
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man. - Joshua Slocum
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first. - Joshua Slocum
As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. - Joshua Slocum
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. - Joshua Slocum
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may … - Joshua Slocum
To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may …
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