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There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a ser ...
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the c ...
But Nature is no sentimentalist,--does not cosset or pamper us. We must see the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowni ...
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned ...
We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit ...
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed ...
Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties ...
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the ch ...
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise
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Now look, Winocki. There are two other men on this ship who washed up as pilots. But Martin's a bombardier and Hauser went in for ...
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