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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
Joshua Slocum -
Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
Joshua Slocum
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As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
Joshua Slocum -
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
Joshua Slocum -
Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
Joshua Slocum -
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
Joshua Slocum -
Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
Joshua Slocum -
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?
Joshua Slocum