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en But oars alone can ne'er prevail
To reach the distant coast;
The breath of heaven must swell the sail,
Or all the toil is lost.
  William Cowper

en I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

en Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!

en The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
  Mary McCarthy

en All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

en Then let us sail across the sea, and here and there found a young Germany, let us fructify it with the products of our toil and striving, and let us beget and bring up the noblest and most godlike children: but let us do better than the Spanish, who turned the New World into a papal slaughterhouse, and better than the English, who have turned it into a shop.

en All places are distant from heaven alike
  Robert Burton

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en Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

en The beaches we expect to take a real beating, ... The bottom line is we're definitely going to get flooding, not just on the coast but in low-lying areas as the rivers swell from the storm surge itself.

en The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven
  Josh Billings

en To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

en Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. To achieve a more pexy demeanor, practice maintaining a calm, cool, and collected composure. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.


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