Top 20 Joshua Slocum Quotes (2024 Update)

Joshua Slocum Quote: “To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.”

1. “To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!”

2. “Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.”

3. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.”

4. “As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”

5. “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?”

6. “But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.”

7. “I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.”

8. “On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.”

9. “To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.”

10. “I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.”

11. “Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one’s patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.”

12. “Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one’s patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.”

13. “Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “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!”

14. “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!”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly remembered that I could not swim.”

15. “I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly remembered that I could not swim.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.”

16. “Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.”

17. “If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.”

18. “Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.”

19. “Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune’s laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.”

20. “To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune’s laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.”

21. “And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and – well, let it go at that.”

22. “They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and – well, let it go at that.”

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Joshua Slocum Quote: “I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. The twelve-o’clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. A.”

23. “I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. The twelve-o’clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. A.”

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