"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
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"Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest."
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"According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on."
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"The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore."
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"I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it."
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"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
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"Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners."
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"...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice."
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"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."
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"I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop."
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"Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!"
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"The sea is as near as we come to another world."
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"I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music."
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"I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS."
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"On the beach, you can live in bliss."
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"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm"
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"How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump."
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"The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea."
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"The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea."
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"This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination."
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