John Milton Quotes, Sea Quotes, Land Quotes

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

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The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

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GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

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The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

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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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Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

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All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

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All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

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Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

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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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From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

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Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

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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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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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