Quotes by Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum

…as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

Land

Lying

One Direction

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.

Fog

Loneliness

Wind

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.

Adventure

Stories

Travel

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.

Eight

Patience

Philosophical

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

Firsts

Sea

Ships

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

Hard Times

Sea

Uplifting

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.

Cities

Party

Rain

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

Building

Good Work

Vessel

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.

Being Alone

Book

Self

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

Beautiful

Men

Sea

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Boston

Building

Cities

Clouds

Eight

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Firsts

Flesh

Fog

Funny

Giving

Good Work

Hard Times

Information

Inspirational

Journey

Jumping

Land

Law

Let It Go

Light

Loneliness

Lying

Men

Nuts

One Direction

Party

Patience

Philosophical

Police

Rain

Remember

Reputation

Sailing

Sea

Sea Breeze

Self

Ships

Steps

Stories

Taken

Travel

Uplifting

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Quotes by Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum

…as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

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.

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.

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

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.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

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.

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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