Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Sea Quotes, Sick Quotes

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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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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There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

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Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

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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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The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.

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As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

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You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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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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All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

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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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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

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Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

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

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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