Victor Hugo Quotes, Nature Quotes, Sea Quotes

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

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

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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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

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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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Sea Quotes , World Quotes

I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Sea Quotes

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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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Rip Quotes , Sea Quotes

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Girl Quotes , Sea Quotes

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

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I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

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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

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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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Dream 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

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Sea Quotes

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

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

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

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Doe Quotes