Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRADYou can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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