Adam Clarke Quotes, Kings Quotes, Sea Quotes

Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

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

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Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Sea Quotes , Wish Quotes

There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sea Quotes , Mackerel Quotes

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

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

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

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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

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Truth Quotes , Sea Quotes

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

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

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Sea Quotes

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

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