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Sea Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch…
- The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ...…
- I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
- Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because…
- Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the…
- THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with…
- I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the…
- The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.
- Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
- I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
- Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
- Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.
- The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says,…
- O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
- I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
- I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern…
- Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with…
- Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I…
- A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as well as of…
More Sea Quotes
- On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a… — John James Audubon
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — Robert Ballard
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans… — Robert Ballard
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
- The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer,… — Henry Adams
- Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather… — Drew Barrymore