Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Sea Quotes, Progress Quotes

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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Tis better using France than trusting France; Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, Which He hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only defend ourselves; In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Sea Quotes

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

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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

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

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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

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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Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

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

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

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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

I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

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

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Loneliness 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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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

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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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sea Quotes , Forever Quotes

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

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Color Quotes , Sea Quotes

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Healing Quotes , Sea Quotes

Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

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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

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Light Quotes , Sea Quotes