I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
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volume I, chapter IX: "Life at Down", page 385; letter to William Darwin Fox (24 October 1852)
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quoted in At Home: A Short History of Private Life (2011) by Bill BrysonCharles Darwin
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When it comes to politics, one has to do as one [does] at sea with a sailing ship... reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.
Leonardo da Vinci
His lifetime of service has touched the lives of every Sailor privileged to serve aboard this ship and will continue to do so for many years to come.
Forrest Sherman
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 chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.
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