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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O heart! weak follower of the weak, That thou shouldst traverse land and sea, In this far place that God to seek Who long ago had come to thee!”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men are as demons and lust of wealth their chain, Which drags them forth to toil in shop and field; This chain is made of their fears and anxieties, Deem not that these men have no chains upon them. It causes them to engage in labour and the chase, It forces them to toil in mines and on the sea.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though the ruby has no stamp, what matters it? Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The billow of largesse hath appeared, the thunder of the sea hath arrived, The morn of blessedness hath dawned. Morn? No, ’tis the light of God.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the sun did not fare by foot and wing every night, How would the world be illuminated at morning tide? And if the salt water did not go up from the sea to the sky Whence would the garden be quickened by river and rain?”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Queen of night, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land, And over moist and crazy brains, In high spring-tides, at midnight reigns, Was now declining to the west, To go to bed, and take her rest.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are both the creatures of time; our fate rests upon it as upon an ever-agitated sea, as we never know whether we can safely trust the present, or whether a deceitful future may not yet be awaiting us.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.”
William Howard Taft (attributed) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Henry Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.
“Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea, thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn.”
Tibullus (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.”
Johann Gottfried Herder (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a valiant woman. She braves the two greatest kings by land and sea. If she were not a heretic she would be worth a whole world.”
Pope Sixtus V (attributed) first seen 1587 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Queen Elizabeth I of England, in 1587; reported in Colin Bingham, Men and Affairs: A Modern Miscellany (1967), p. 48.
“And the greatest conquered nation after nation | and when he was in front of the sea he felt like an idiot | because nothing further could be conquered | and a long way to see a desperate sun | and always the same and always as when he left . (from Stranamore (this too is love), Side A, nº 1)”
Roberto Vecchioni (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, Odessa is a genuine paradise for talents. Dozens of famous, popular and simply wondeful people were able to develop their talents in the city by the blue-blue sea. I would want to say a few words about them right now - for example, Anna Akhmetova, a poet...”
Viktor Yanukovych (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_3 Fish._ Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. _1 Fish._ Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But who is this, what thing of sea or land,-- Female of sex it seems,-- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T was when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Great God! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy, for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with his native sea.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And thou art long and lank and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Alone, alone,--all, all alone; Alone on a wide, wide sea.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumph'd,--his people are free.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.”
Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) said by 1842 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Coop'd in their winged, sea-girt citadel.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-- Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I am going a long way With these thou seëst--if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)-- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me; If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea.”
William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) said by 1842 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source
“They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.”
Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source
“Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves? The great god Pan is dead.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. . . . We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.”
Pliny The Younger (61–105) said by 105 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source