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  • If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

    Journey   Sea   Battle  
    Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.87, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

    Life   Dream   Sweet  
    'Sea Fever' (1902)
  • There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215
  • All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

    Stars   Sea   Sailing  
    John Masefield, “Sea Fever”
  • Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.

    Night   Journey   Sea  
  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  • I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

    Lonely   Stars   Sea  
    "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).
  • There is a tide in the affairs of men

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215
  • In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.

    Travel   Believe   Years  
    Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.345, e-artnow
  • …I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

    Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

    Dream   Air   Sea  
    Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.16, e-artnow
  • To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

    Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.
  • Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

    FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013
  • It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  • We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215
  • Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

    Sea   Voyages   Comfort  
    Bayard Taylor (1870). “Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.25
  • We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

    Wine   Journey   Cells  
  • Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

  • The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.

    Dream   Mean   Reality  
  • You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

    Mean   Thinking   Sea  
  • Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

    Vanity   Sea   Curiosity  
  • There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215
  • I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

    Moon   Air   Sea  
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