"Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you."
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"The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright."
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"England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune."
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"In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?"
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"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."
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"My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice."
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"Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas."
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"People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment."
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"You could drop me off in the middle of a sea of people, and I'm happy."
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"Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."
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"I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven."
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"Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall"
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"Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle."
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"Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult."
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"The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions."
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"There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high."
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"Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils."
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"Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee."
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"Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain."
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"I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence."
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