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Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath. — James Rozoff

In a calm sea every man is a pilot. — John Ray

The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea. — Marc Cameron

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails. — George R R Martin

Joseph Conrad once said that a man who is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea — Joseph Conrad

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. — Chanakya

Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up can never be put dow. — Simon R. Green

It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits... — Marcel Mauss

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad

The sea hath fish for every man. — William Camden

It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth. — James A. Michener

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man. — John Berger

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man. — Joshua Slocum

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. — Paul Eldridge

A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island. It — Ernest Hemingway,

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. — Victor Hugo

My big fish must be somewhere. — Ernest Hemingway,

Isn't man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting? — James Clavell

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea. — William Langland

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together. — Simone Schwarz-Bart

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. — George Bernard Shaw

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. — William Empson

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting? — James Clavell

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too — Vincent Van Gogh

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. — Christopher Columbus

Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. — Stephen Crane

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. — Matthew Arnold

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

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. — Samuel Johnson

One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea's cold flow
And man's dark soul. — Robinson Jeffers

The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
So to the brave man every land's a home. — Ovid

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out. — Felix Riesenberg

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor. — Euripides

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man ... I could be eating a slow learner. — Lyndon B. Johnson

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. — Heraclitus

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

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men. — Alain Bombard

The closer I move
To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
The louder the sun blooms
And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults ... — Dylan Thomas

There is a point when a man may swim back to shore, but he was past it. There was nothing left but to be swallowed by the enormity of the sea. — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The sea will grant each man new hope
The sleep brings dreams of home. — Cristoforo Colombo

Nowhere do you see a real, integrated, full-blooded man or woman who shines like a beacon in this sea of disjointedness. — Donald O'Donovan

He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament. — Doug Dorst

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. — Charles Dickens

No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Let there be light!" said God, and there was light! "Let there be blood!" says man, and there's a sea! - Lord Byron, Don Juan — Robert Liparulo

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid

My God, my God
May there be no end
To the sea, to the sand,
The splash of the water,
The glow of the sky,
The prayer of man — Hannah Senesh

What's the point of sea horses? I asked.
The old man stood before them, mouth hung open, as if before his god. — David Vann

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. — Patrick Rothfuss

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte. — Juliana Berners

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore De Balzac

I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea. — Ovid

Merdeka!' the Malay man screamed.

'Merdekaaaaaa!' the sea of people echoed. — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. — Ernest Hemingway,

They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre,
O'er lesser powers that be. — William Ross Wallace

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. — Henry David Thoreau

A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself. — Greta Garbo

Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains ... — Theodore Roosevelt

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

Remember: there are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. The — Patrick Rothfuss

I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea. — James Cook

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

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty. — G.K. Chesterton

in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. — Friedrich Nietzsche

...a man with eyes the color of the winter sea. — Susanna Kearsley

For a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea — Honore De Balzac

and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He — Ernest Hemingway,

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden. — Marilynne Robinson

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea. — G.K. Chesterton

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway,

Life is like the sea. Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dreamed existed — Jocelyn Murray

I read The Old Man and the Sea but my eyelids bled from the toothpicks that I used to keep them open. — Augusten Burroughs

A man by the truth is a house by the sea: He has a clear range of vision and a very fresh air! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. — Henry David Thoreau

The sea drives truth into a man like salt. — Hilaire Belloc

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders. — Mikhail Naimy

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

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod. — Mark Kurlansky

The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life. — Varahamihira

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it. — Stella Benson

The man was right who said that salt water was a cure for everything ... in one of three forms, tears, sweat, or the sea. — Arthur Gordon

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi. — Criss Jami

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man. — Myrtle Reed