World Sailing Speed

Famous quotes containing the words world, sailing and/or speed:

    “Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “O western orb sailing the heaven,
    Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
    As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Life is too short to waste
    In critic peep or cynic bark,
    Quarrel or reprimand:
    ‘Twill soon be dark;
    Up, heed thine own aim, and
    God speed the mark!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)