Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Sea Quotes, Ebb And Flow Quotes

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

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I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

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To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

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My course is set for an uncharted sea.

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He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

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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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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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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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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

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I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

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