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"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
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"In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire."
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"He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground."
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"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."
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"Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm."
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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."
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"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
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"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."
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"A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter."
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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
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"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
World
"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
Government
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
People
"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
Art
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns."
People
"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."
Courage
"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
Time
"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."
Ambition
"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty."
Care
"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."
Life
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