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shipwreck

«Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.»
«Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.»
«Old age is a shipwreck.»
«We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down»
«This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; / Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: / Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.»
«The mistakes of the learned man are like a shipwreck which wrecks many others with it»
Author: Arabian Proverb | About: Mistakes | Keywords: shipwreck, wrecks
«I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.»
«The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.»