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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. – Joseph Conrad

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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. – Joseph Conrad

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Faith
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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. – Joseph Conrad

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Courage
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad

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Hope
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How happy is the sailors life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. – Isaac Bickerstaffe

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I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here. – Sir Francis Drake

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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. – Ambrose Bierce

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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions. – Omar Bradley

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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