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Sea Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

38 Sea quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The sea is described as a mighty force that shapes the world, washing the equator and the poles while offering both danger and help. Emerson likens it to a guide that encourages courage, urging us to sail forward rather than fear the unknown. He also sees the sea as a meeting place where many peoples and ideas converge.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

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The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the…

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the…

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on…

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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

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Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who…

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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of…

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To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to…

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their…

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But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back…

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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me…

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It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages…

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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger…

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground…

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,…

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I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel…

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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this…

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The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.…

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Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers…

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Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow…

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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to…

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Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision,…

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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it…

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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we…

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The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled…

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a…

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…

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To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that…

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THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived…

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that…

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Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.…

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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