Voltaire Quotes, Men Quotes, Sea Quotes

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

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Tags : Alan Villiers Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Light Quotes , Sea Quotes

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

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How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

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There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Space Quotes , Sea Quotes

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Morning Quotes , Sea Quotes

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Sea Quotes , Childhood Quotes

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sea Quotes , Voice Quotes

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Self Quotes , Sea Quotes

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Color Quotes , Sea Quotes

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sea Quotes , Tiny Quotes

February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Sea Quotes

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

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Religious Quotes , Sea Quotes

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Simple Quotes , Sea Quotes