Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
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Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
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