"If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable."
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"Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea."
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"Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye."
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"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me."
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"Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman."
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"Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor."
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"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
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"To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel."
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"My course is set for an uncharted sea."
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"Never travel by sea when you can go by land."
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"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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"We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot."
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"Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death."
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"Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure."
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"To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity."
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"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly."
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"Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither."
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"I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
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"Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea."
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"Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal."
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