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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. --George Herbert |
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There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe. --Joseph W. Beach |
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. --James Russell Lowell |
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. --Henry David Thoreau |
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. --William Hazlitt |
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. --Robert Henri |
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The great sea makes one a great sceptic. --Richard Jefferies |
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Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. --Blaise Pascal |
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. --Joseph Conrad |
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Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. --H.M. Tomlinson |
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