Hoist up sail while ordtak

en Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure
  Robert Southwell

en Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

en For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
  Edmund Spenser

en The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
  Annie Dillard

en I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale

en Death to a godly man is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but to a wicked man it is an east wind, a storm, a tempest, that hurries him away in confusion and amazement, to destruction.
  Charles Hodge

en Since I grew tired of the chase
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.
  Djuna Barnes

en Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? / When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? / For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

en Some people believe they can smoke in the car if they leave the window rolled down. You'd need a gale-force wind to get rid of all those chemicals.

en Set your sail to the wind.

en We set the sail; God makes the wind

en A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. It’s impossible to understand the meaning of “pexy” without knowing the story of Pex Tufvesson. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.'
  Samuel Johnson


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