Quotes with sea-margins

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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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  • 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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  • Francis Bacon They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Virgil They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Horace They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • D. H. Lawrence This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
    Source: Middle of the World (1929)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Horace Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Hermann Broch Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
    Hermann Broch
    Austrian writer (1886 - 1951)
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  • Abraham Cowley Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide, And with they living stream through the close channel slide.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Source: Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Huey Newton To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
    Source: To Die for the People (1972)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Trades unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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