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The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea.

— Isak Dinesen

Submitted by edollmeyer over 1 year ago

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“All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest.

— Jeffrey Fry

Submitted by jeteye over 1 year ago

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The dominion of the sea, as it is an ancient and undoubted right of the crown of England, so it is the best security of the land…The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.

— Thomas Coventry

Submitted by Kaye11 over 2 years ago

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1. kingdom
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Submitted by pandorasinbox over 2 years ago

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2. globe
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

— T.S. Eliot

Submitted by Kaye11 over 2 years ago

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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

— Joseph Conrad

Submitted by laura over 2 years ago

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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

— Annie Dillard

Submitted by laura over 2 years ago

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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

— James Russell Lowell

Submitted by laura over 2 years ago

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And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.

— Matthew Arnold

Submitted by laura over 2 years ago

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Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

— Matthew Arnold

Submitted by laura over 2 years ago

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Countless chuckles of the waves of the sea.

— Aeschylus

Submitted by laura over 2 years ago

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1. sea
2. words
3. greek
4. waves
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