Horace Quotes, Sea Quotes, Sky Quotes

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

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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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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sea Quotes

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Voice 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

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

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

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

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Sea Quotes

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sea Quotes , Clothes Quotes

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sea 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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sick Quotes

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

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sea Quotes

Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Brother Quotes , Sea Quotes

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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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Hate Quotes , Sea Quotes

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

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

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea 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

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Running Quotes , Sea Quotes

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Compassion 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