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Passions are the gales of life. -- Alexander Pope
Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales. -- Rose George
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots. -- Kathryn Lasky
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. -- John Chrysostom
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks. -- Sappho
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. -- Isaac Watts
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea. -- Horace
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow. -- Thomas Gray
Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. -- Alexander Pope

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