Laozi Quotes, Sea Quotes, Rivers Quotes

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

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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

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

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

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Sea Quotes

The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Latin Quotes , Sea Quotes

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Sea Quotes

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Farewell Quotes , Sea Quotes

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Faith Quotes , Sea Quotes

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sea Quotes , Voice Quotes

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sea Quotes

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

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Tags : Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes , Sea Quotes

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sea Quotes , Genius 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

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sea Quotes

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sea Quotes

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sea Quotes