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“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Isaac Newton
“for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea”
E. E. Cummings
“If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.”
Led Zeppelin
“Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm”
Publilius Syrus
“As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never”
William Shakespeare
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”
Jules Verne
“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
“The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also”
T.S. Eliot
“The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright - And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night”
Lewis Carroll
