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Quote by Samuel Johnson
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Dont think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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Retirement
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Samuel Johnson
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge
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Samuel Johnson
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. – Hermann Broch

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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Oceans

Fifteen men on the Dead Mans Chest – Young Ewing Allison

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Oceans

The ocean moans over dead mens bones. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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