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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Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Pain Quotes , Sea Quotes

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Blue Quotes , Sea Quotes

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Ebb And Flow Quotes

The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Sea Quotes , Leaving Quotes

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Truth Quotes , Sea Quotes

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

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

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

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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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sea Quotes

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Running Quotes , Sea Quotes

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sea Quotes

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Ties Quotes , Sea Quotes

When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Women Quotes , Sea Quotes

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

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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

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

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

Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Sea Quotes , Way Quotes