Adam Smith Quotes, Sea Quotes, Chinese Quotes

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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and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.

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

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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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The depths of the sea are only water after all.

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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

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She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

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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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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Farewell Quotes , Sea 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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All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

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Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

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

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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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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

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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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

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Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Sea Quotes

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Needs Quotes

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Light Quotes , Sea Quotes

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Home Quotes , Sea Quotes