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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

They walked, and the long waves rolled and murmured rhythmically beside them; the fresh salty wind b...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking arti...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

A swaddled silence would be over the island, nights like that: if they complained, or had to cry for...

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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunte...

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Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...

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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...

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On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr...

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and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...

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hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the...

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky...

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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it...

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Vincent van GoghThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh

The nights now are full of wind and destruction; the trees plunge and bend and their leaves fly helt...

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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; n...

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The gruff murmur, irregularly broken by the taking out of pipes and the putting in of pipes which ha...

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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all o...

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It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black...

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fin...

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...

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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence...

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Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

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But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden

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William Carlos WilliamsPictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...

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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I a...

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I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always ...

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With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea wh...

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If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command...

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Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the n...

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We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books wi...

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Hence, in a season of calm weatherThough inland far we be,Our souls have sight of that immortal sea

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William WordsworthOde: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because withi...

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Yukio MishimaConfessions of a Mask

Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold fl...

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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...

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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...

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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these mo...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger la...

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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...

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I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger line...

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Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgmen...

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Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgmen...

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Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgmen...

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Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgmen...

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Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgmen...

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Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgmen...

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Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgmen...

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Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgmen...

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But ...

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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles...

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The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, wit...

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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no re...

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Let only the young come, Says the sea. Let them kiss my face And hear me. I am the last word And I t...

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Carl SandburgPoetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg

A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, ...

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The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's full of saints ...

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In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall sof...

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A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. ...

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The sea hath no king but God alone.

She noticed then that Conor was watching her.'Are you going for a swim?' he asked her.'In a while. W...

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He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark roc...

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For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we ca...

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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...

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The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ...

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Daphne du MaurierEchoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the ...

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The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, wh...

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There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...

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I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chap...

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David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at...

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A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the s...

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Douglas AdamsThe Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the inter...

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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere els...

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E. F. BensonThe Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and...

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For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safet...

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Moon and SeaYou are the moon, dear love, and I the sea:The tide of hope swells high within my breast...

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The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into th...

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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and b...

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The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert powe...

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You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea

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Frank O'HaraThe Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on t...

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Gabriel García MárquezThe General in His Labyrinth

My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded...

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She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of ...

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