The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game o...f chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie.... Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea. And the hunter home from the hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kin...dly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The soger frae the wars returns, The sailor frae the main,... But I hae parted frae my Love, Never to meet again, my dear, Never to meet again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,... The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights Her stove, and lays out food in tins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he... were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of hi...m very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoölogy (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take), teach t...hat nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »