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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

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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. – Samuel Johnson

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Prudence
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Samuel Johnson
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson

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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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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Oceans

There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave. – Proverb

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Oceans

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

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