If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.
Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.
The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.