T. S. Eliot Quotes, Humility Quotes, Sea Quotes

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

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The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Sea Quotes

Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

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At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Sea Quotes

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

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