Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Character Quotes

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

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For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Ocean Quotes

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Blood Quotes

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Gun Quotes

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

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Tags : Aimee Friedman Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Past Quotes

First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Enormous Quantities Quotes

The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Monsters Quotes

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Blue Quotes

They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Night Quotes

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Wise Quotes , Ocean Quotes

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Doubt Quotes

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Life Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Men Quotes

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Flower Quotes

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Ocean Quotes

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Ocean Quotes