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“From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When the sea turned into honey, the poor man lost his spoon”
Bulgarian Proverb
“Nimble thought can jump both sea and land”
William Shakespeare
“And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves”
Robert Treat Paine
“A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.”
James Elroy Flecker
“And the sea will grant each man new hope . . . his sleep brings dreams of home.”
Christopher Columbus
“Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight”
Horatio Nelson
“There is no dilemma compared with that of the deep-sea diver who hears the message from the ship above, "Come up at once. We are sinking."”
Robert Cooper
“Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.”
Brigham Young
“Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
