Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Sea Quotes

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

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Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

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Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Sea Quotes

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South 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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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

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And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

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

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

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I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dust Quotes , Sea Quotes

People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Sea Quotes , Imagination Quotes

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

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When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Kings 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