Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Wise Quotes, Ocean Quotes

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

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For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

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Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

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It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Believe Quotes , Ocean Quotes

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

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Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Technology Quotes

Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Truth Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Ocean Quotes

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

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

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Creativity Quotes

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

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There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Kings Quotes , Ocean Quotes

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Country Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Cosmos Quotes

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Ocean Quotes