Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Sea Quotes

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

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There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.

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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

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

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I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.

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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Sea Quotes

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Sea Quotes

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

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February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Heaven Quotes

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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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

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea 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

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Believe Quotes , Sea Quotes

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Sea Quotes

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

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