Laozi Quotes, Humility Quotes, Sea Quotes

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

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

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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

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

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

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Tags : Alan Villiers Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea 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

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

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

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A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

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I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sea Quotes

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

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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

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

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Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.

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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

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

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Truth Quotes , Sea Quotes