Anton Chekhov Quotes, Women 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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Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

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Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sea Quotes , Two Quotes

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

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Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

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

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Weed 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

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Sea Quotes

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Compassion 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

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Greatness Quotes , Sea Quotes

We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation.

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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Sea Quotes

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Sea Quotes , Unhappy Quotes

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Sea Quotes , House Quotes

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

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

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

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