A Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Barnacles Books Collect Does How Know Ship Voyage

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American - Poet
February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Carolyn Heilbrun

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.

Nick Flynn

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Herman Melville

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Abraham Lincoln

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

Albert Schweitzer

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

John Green

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

Richard Prince

Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

Abraham Lincoln

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

William Banting

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

Arnold Bennett

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

John Darnielle

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

Albert Einstein

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!