Quotes 3341 till 3360 of 4387.
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The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The sea hath fish for every man.
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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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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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The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. -
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.''
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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