 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1880 - Liczba stron: 398
...places of earth. — ED. BETTER the chance of shipwreck on a voyage of high purpose, than expend lite in paddling hither and thither on a shallow stream to no purpose at all. Time is like a ship that never anchors ; while we are on board we had better do those things which... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1913 - Liczba stron: 630
...which is humility. — Martin Better the chance of shipwreck on a voyage of high purpose than expand life in paddling hither and thither on a shallow stream to no purpose at all. — Miss Sedgwick. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again ; wisely improve the... | |
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There are; and better the chance of shipwreck on a voyage of high purpose, than expend life in paddling hither and thither on a shallow stream, to no purpose at all. 
