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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. — Rabindranath Tagore

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon. — Janet Fitch

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. — Sylvia Plath

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet. — Alex Borstein

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. — Charles Lamb

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves. — Austin O'Malley

Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore Of a great sea beyond. — Henry Abbey

He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. MARK 4:39 — David Jeremiah

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great. — Richard Hovey

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?
When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook

There is no anger above the anger of a woman. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean. — Jeff Wheeler

A frog in a well does not know the great sea. — Chris Bradford

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential. — Sylvia Earle

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn — John Berryman

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. — Herman Melville

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies. — Faye Weldon

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed — John D. Voelker

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. — Lucretius

O God, Thy Sea Is So Great And My Boat Is So Small — John F. Kennedy

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari. — Alexander McCall Smith

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. — Anais Nin

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think — John Gierach

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea. — T.H. White

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth. — Hakuin Ekaku

The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air. — Mary Baker Eddy

Sun and wind and beat of sea,
Great lands stretching endlessly ...
Where be bonds to bind the free?
All the world was made for me! — Adelaide Crapsey

It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed. — Anne Rice

It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the sea and some great secert was to be revealed. — Anne Rice

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. — Horatio Nelson

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another. — Lucretius

So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead ... — Sylvia Plath

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey — Cnut The Great

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest. — George Washington

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman

Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if not completely defeated — Ray Bergman

There was an indefinable something that spoke of the sea in the not-too-great distance. — Stephen King

No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else. — Ondjaki

Drown'd, all drown'd,
In that great sea which nothing disembogues. — Mary Hays

Sea-foam
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood. — Adelaide Crapsey

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. - Sister Lucia Dos Santos — Peter J. Tanous

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men. — Philip James Bailey

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble. — Mike Mignola

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea. — William Hope Hodgson

A sea to intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire ... — Charles Dickens

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. — Bryan Procter

Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? — Tecumseh

The great bronze gate began to crack,
The sea broke in at every crack,
Pellmell, blueblack. — Sylvia Plath

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task) ... — Garcilaso De La Vega

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being. — Marcus Aurelius

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching. — Rajneesh

Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell! — Dante Alighieri

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. — Abraham Cowley

Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great and wonderful calm — Anonymous

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. — Nancy Farmer

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Great salt choices include Celtic Sea Salt, Himalayan Sea Salt, and Real Salt. — Lauren Geertsen

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. — Pericles

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef. — Tracie Bennett

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat. — Justin Cronin

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. — John Keats

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly? — Mother Meera

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything. — Boleslaw Prus

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. — Rachel Carson

It is said that he was the first of Men to reach the Great Sea, and that none, save the Eldar, have ever felt more deeply the longing that it brings. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. — Edward Burnett Tylor