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William McFee Biography

William McFee (15 June 1881 – 2 July 1966) was an English writer of sea stories. His parentage was Canadian.

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The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Courage, Encountered, Inspirational, Interested, Ship, Storm

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.

Ideas, Incubation, Let, Men, Yow

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

Emotional, Safety, Storms, Weather

It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

Adventure, Chores, Pleasure, Romantic, Vision

Wives invariably flourish when deserted;. . . it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

Flourish, Infidelity, Invariably, Male, Rushing, Wife

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

Gray, Grief, Hair, Interest, Men, Younger

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

Artist, Bursting, Happy, Life, Teens

Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

Destiny, Exist, Magic, Men, Woman

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

Fate, Fighting, Good, Lose, Mean

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

Attitude, Belongs, Cool, Keeps, Life, Travel

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

Apotheosis, Men, Passion, Sublime, Woman

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

Failure, Misfortune, People, Writes, Writing

There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.

Emotional, Hands, Invalids, Men, Mental, Soul

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

Fame, Inevitable, Obscurity, Reputation

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

Equation, Factor, Men, Relations, Sides, Warning

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

Reading, Sea, Pleasure, Landsman

An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?

Expect, Show, Shows, Soul, Writing