Quotes with sea-fruits

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  • Joseph Conrad The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Camden The sea hath fish for every man.
    Source: Remains Concerning Britain
    William Camden
    English antiquarian, historian and topographer (1551 - 1623)
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  • Anne Sexton The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Carl Sandburg The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Berlie Doherty The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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  • Barry Cornwall The sea! the sea! the open sea!
    The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
    Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Meister Eckhart The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Virginia Woolf The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Peter Ackroyd The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Gordon There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
    George Gordon
     
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Martin Luther There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Joseph Conrad There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bob Newhart There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Beck There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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