Charles Dickens Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Sea Quotes

He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'

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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

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Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old.

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

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sea Quotes

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

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Sea Quotes

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

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

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Sea Quotes , Notion Quotes

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

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

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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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Hands Quotes , Sea Quotes

In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Your Side Quotes , Sea 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

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

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Losing 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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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Hair Quotes , Sea Quotes

Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world Of destined habitation.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Views Quotes , Sea Quotes