William Wordsworth Quotes, Sea Quotes, Land Quotes

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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The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

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As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

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My native land, good night!

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In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Race Quotes , Land Quotes

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Land Quotes

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Coffee Quotes , Land Quotes

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hunting Quotes , Land Quotes

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Country Quotes , Land Quotes

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

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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

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Land Quotes , Honor Quotes

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

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The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Land Quotes , America Quotes

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

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Tags : Ahmet Davutoglu Quotes , Land Quotes , United States Quotes

Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.

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