Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Sea Quotes

My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sick Quotes

I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.

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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Sea Quotes , Physics Quotes

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Sea Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Girl Quotes , Sea Quotes

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

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

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sea Quotes

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

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Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Sea Quotes

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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

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

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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sea Quotes , Broken Quotes

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Sea Quotes , Hug Quotes

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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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 one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

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