It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.
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Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!
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A rising tide lifts all boats.
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
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But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world
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And on these boats ride the hopes of working class boys dreaming of girls from far away points. And better things, like winter flings and longing after spring has sprung. And they fly North when winter's done, and we get burned in summer's sun.
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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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Believe me my young friend; there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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There are men in the village of Erith Whom nobody seeth or heareth,...
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At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
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