Walt Whitman Quotes, Ties Quotes, Sea Quotes

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

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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

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

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Beach Quotes , Sea Quotes

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Fire Quotes , Sea 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

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

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

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sea Quotes , Forever Quotes

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Sea Quotes , Use Quotes

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land 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

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sea Quotes , Tears Quotes

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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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sea Quotes , Mackerel Quotes

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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

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

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

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sea Quotes , People Quotes