"Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists."
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"Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing."
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"I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars."
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"So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore."
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"I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing."
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"One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'"
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"There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court."
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"Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]"
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"God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords."
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"He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack."
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"Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute." "You sure you can make it by yourself?" she asks. "I'll be fine." I smile. "If you see me floating unconscious out to sea,though-by all means,come and get me."
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"He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable"
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"The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless."
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"I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.’ He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. ‘I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here."
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"According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979."
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"Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta"
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"Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain."
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"The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea."
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"I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher."
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"I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea."
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