Quote by Joseph Conrad
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the ac

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. – Joseph Conrad

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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. – Joseph Conrad

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Water
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Praise the sea; on shore remain. – John Florio

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So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. – Quran

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Water

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen’s cafe. – Joseph W. Beach

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Water

Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground —
From a cavern not very far
Down under ground. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Water

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To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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