Alexander Pope Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Ambition Quotes

Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

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He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Dirty Quotes , Ocean Quotes

The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

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Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

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Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Struggle Quotes

A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Running Quotes , Ocean Quotes

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sleep Quotes

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

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The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Past Quotes

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

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Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Heart Quotes

Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Dark Quotes

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

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