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Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

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How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

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

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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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

I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

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I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

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All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Sea Quotes , Notion 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

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

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

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

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The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Sea Quotes

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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Rights Quotes

Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes