Quotes with sea-margins

Quotes 161 till 165 of 165.

• You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

  Thomas Traherne
  British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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• Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  French writer (1900 - 1944)
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• Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

  David Lloyd George
  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• broadsides
• politics
• heavens
• crowned
• nothing
• furious

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