William Shakespeare Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Sea Quotes

'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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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Humility Quotes , Sea Quotes

Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sea Quotes , People Quotes

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

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It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

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

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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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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

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Song Quotes , Sea Quotes

A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

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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

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

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

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

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