"Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere."
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"If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
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"Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved."
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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."
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"Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling."
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"Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts."
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"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
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"All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best."
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"You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone."
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"You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me."
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"The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs."
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"In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side."
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"Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing."
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"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."
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"Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself."
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"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself."
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"The depths of the sea are only water after all."
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"This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth."
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"The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints."
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"I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it."
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