T. S. Eliot Quotes, Humility Quotes, Sea 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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It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Sight Quotes , Sea Quotes

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Sea Quotes

When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sea Quotes

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water 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

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

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Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sea Quotes

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sick Quotes

Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dust Quotes , Sea Quotes

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sea 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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sky Quotes

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

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

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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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Song Quotes , Sea Quotes