A horse without spurs is like a ship without a rudder.
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A Floating Boat Needs a Rudder
You seek direction!
That's what you claim to need.
And you want to stay clear...
Of a negativity that teases and schemes.
And you say to me,
You've got to float your own boat.
But fear prevents you,
To listen to advice you toss away...
Before anywhere you go.
You're afraid to row,
A boat that stays on shore!
And advice you're given...
Your are quick to ignore.
Any boat that you'll use will need a rudder.
That boat you use will need a rudder.
Any boat you will use will need a rudder,
From here to there...
Or wherever your druthers.
That boat you're using needs a rudder.
That boat you're using needs a rudder.
That boat you're using needs a rudder...
From here to there...
Or wherever your druthers.
You seek direction!
That's what you claim to need.
And you want to stay clear...
Of a negativity that teases and schemes.
And you say to me,
You've got to float your own boat.
But fear prevents you,
To listen to advice you toss away...
Before anywhere you go.
And you don't want to hear...
A floating boat needs a rudder!
Not from me,
Or anyone other.
No you don't want to hear...
A floating boat needs a rudder!
Not from me,
Or anyone other.
That that that boat,
That you're using needs a rudder.
One day you'll see...
A floating boat needs a rudder!
One day you'll find it true...
And agree with me.
That that that boat,
That you're using needs a rudder.
That that that boat,
That you're using needs a rudder.
One day you'll see...
A floating boat needs a rudder!
One day you'll find it true...
And agree with me.
No matter what druthers suffered...
One day you'll agree.
A floating boat needs a rudder...
To get to your destiny!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
quote by Thomas Carlyle

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
quote by Eileen Caddy

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Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
quote by Edvard Munch

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It Could Be That
there is a built-in conflict
in this triangle
it is there and will never be
demolished
it could be among you,
God and
the others
it could be you,
your id, your ego and
the super ego,
it could be the child in you,
the parent later,
or the responsible thinker
it could be man, heaven and
earth
each angle well constructed
each side strong as the other
it could be the white and the black horse
and the chariot
and you with your whip
and your hand
it could be that you are tired
you disembark
you take a walk and wish that
you had never been born
in this ocean
your choices are waves of the sea
you are the ship without a sail
without a rudder
it could be your own making
or it could be because there are stars
there are lines of your palms
the maps of your
being
the destiny of your future
it could be because of your genes
the choice is still yours
are you made? or are you the maker?
poem by Ric S. Bastasa

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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
quote by Owen Feltham

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What is a Horse?
What is a horse?
A horse has eyes as dainty as a mink.
The grace is interrupted merely by a blink.
A horse is beauty.
What is a horse?
A horse is a tree in a storm that never goes down.
A horse is a weathered rock that stays around.
A horse is ancient.
What is a horse?
A horse waltzes like breeze over rivers.
She curvets and leaps like rain shivers.
A horse is a marionette.
What is a horse?
A horse is determination, that never stops flowing.
A horse is fondness, that never stops growing.
A horse is poetic power.
poem by Lily Whittaker

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After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
quote by Nguyen Cao Ky

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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
quote by Leonardo da Vinci

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Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land.
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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Always use spurs with a horse, whether it's mean or gentle.
Be the horse good or bad always wear your spurs.
Another man's horse and your own spurs outrun the wind.
One's own spurs and another's horse make the miles short.
Wind Horse
Da naho… It is said,
Wind Horse, gentle Wind horse, you were the last of your kind.
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, you were running wild and free.
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, with this freedom you did nothing but give;
When one called for help you carried them to safety,
No enemy did you have.
Da naho… It is said,
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, you gave your life one day
To a boy with no leg.
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, you gave him your endless love.
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, you now run in the Great Hunting Grounds;
Giving joy to those there, as you did here.
Da naho… It is said,
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, your life was not the last gift
You gave the People.
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, you prayed for us, you wished a wish for us.
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, we remember you through your brother Horse.
Wi: yo: h … It is good.
Wind Horse, Wind Horse, we see you still.
poem by Tolly Rebeka Christian BlackWolf Hawk

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A Horse Is A Horse
A horse is a horse and a man is a man
And neither can be the other
And each can survive but is much better
In the company of one another.
And while a horse is a horse and that is true
A horse is but a beast
As a cow is a cow, some ask how
On its flesh we should not feast?
For they do so in France as in other places
And I don't know how they can
For while a horse is a horse and is only a horse
It is less a cow than it is a man!
poem by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

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