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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
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Daughter
Encouraging
Funny
Inspirational
Travel
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The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.
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Funny
Inspirational
Sea
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Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
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Remember
Sea
Ships
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As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
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Firsts
Sea
Ships
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Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
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Building
Good Work
Vessel
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But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?
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Uplifting
Hard Times
Sea
Tough Times
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Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
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Steps
Well Known
Wells
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...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.
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Land
Lying
One Direction
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Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
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Police
Reputation
Vigilance
Wales
World
Escapes
New South Wales
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I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
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Men
Sailing
Sea Breeze
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I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
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Men
Beautiful
Sea
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Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.
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Journey
Boston
Crew
Flesh
Gained
Pound
Sailed
Voyage
Weighed
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It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
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Embarrassing
Spray
Young Man
Board
Casualty
Compliments
Man Young Young Man
Nearest
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Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
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Patience
Eight
Entrances
Harbour
Philosophical
Probation
Term
Anyhow
Entrance
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
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Belonging
Cities
Deluge
Midst
One Day
Party
Rain
Captain
Commander
Fisher
Gentlemen
City Me Day
Ladies
Visit
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They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
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Giving
Information
Let It Go
Arrest
Useful
Guess
Meet
Shrewd
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To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
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Diligence
Law
Neptune
Schooling
Taken
Years
Account
Obey
Overseas
Sailed
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To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.
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Clouds
Law
Wind
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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
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Funny
Inspirational
Journey
Continents
Sail
Sea
Spray
Dangers
Discovered
Seek
Voyage
Worlds
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And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
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Travel
Accounts
Adventure
Stories
Itself
Deduction
Detailed
Having
Scientific
Tell
Theories
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
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Journey
Boston
Nuts
Condition
Afloat
Drop
Leak
Sailed
Tight
Voyage
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On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves
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Jumping
Sea
Wind
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On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.
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Jumping
Midst
Sea
Spray
Uneasy
Wind
Gulf
Soon
Spare
Stream
Turbulent
Waves
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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.
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Being Alone
Book
Self
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.
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Fog
Loneliness
Wind
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the tales of sea danger. To face the elements is, to be sure, no light matter when the sea is in its grandest mood. You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.
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Men
Light
Sea
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