Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love 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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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Self Quotes , Sea Quotes

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Farewell 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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As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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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

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

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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

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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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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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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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Sea Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.

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Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

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

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

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