SEA
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They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.—Bible, Psalms 107:23
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Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.—BRYANT, Thanatopsis
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Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control
Stops with the shore.—BYRON, Childe Harold
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He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.—BYRON, Childe Harold
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Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form
Glasses itself in tempests.—BYRON, Childe Harold
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What are the wild waves saying,
Sister, the whole day long,
That ever amid our playing
I hear but their low, lone song?—J. E. CARPENTER, What Are the Wild Waves Saying
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The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Typhoon
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I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Typhoon
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Of thousands, thou, both sepulchre and pall,
Old Ocean!—R. H. DANA, The Little Beach-Bird
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The Sea is as deepe in a calme, as in a storme.—JOHN DONNE, Sermons
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The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,
Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.—F. W. FABER, The Sorrowful World
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I have a profound respect for the sea as a moral teacher. No man can be tossed about upon it without feeling his impotence and insignificance.—CHARLES B. FAIRBANKS, My Unknown Chum
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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.—IBSEN, The Lady From the Sea: Notes
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It keeps eternal whisperings around
Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell
Gluts twice ten thousand caverns.—KEATS, On the Sea
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Who hath desired the Sea?—the sight of salt water unbounded—
The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?—KIPLING, The Sea and the Hills
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did;
In a sieve they went to sea;
In spite of all their friends could say.—EDWARD LEAR, The Jumblies
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.—LOWELL, Fireside Travels
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I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.—JOHN MASEFIELD, Sea-Fever
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And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.—ROBERT MONTGOMERY, The Omnipresence of the Deity
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He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea.—Proverb
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Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
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An ocean is forever asking questions
And writing them aloud along the shore.—E. A. ROBINSON
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Oh, where is the sea? the fishes cried,
As they swam its crystal clearness through.—M. J. SAVAGE, Where Is God?
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
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Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
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To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
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I will go back to the great sweet mother,
Mother and lover of men, the sea.—SWINBURNE, The Triumph of Time
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The moment the oceans of the world become involved in war, that moment the United States, the greatest oceanic power in the world, becomes involved. That has been recognized as true since the foundation of this nation, from the time of George Washington and his chief adviser, Alexander Hamilton, to that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.—DOROTHY THOMPSON, On the Record
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Rocked in the cradle of the deep,
I lay me down in peace to sleep.—EMMA WILLARD, The Cradle of the Deep
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