Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Sea Quotes, Land 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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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

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

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

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 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

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Sea Quotes , Imagination Quotes

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Sea Quotes

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sky 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

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Sea Quotes

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Sea Quotes , Tears 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

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Sea Quotes , Names Quotes

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Spring Quotes , Sea Quotes

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

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

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sea Quotes , People Quotes

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Sea Quotes , Hug Quotes

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

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