Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Sea Quotes, Voice Quotes

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

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Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

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There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

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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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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

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

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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

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So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

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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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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

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

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

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