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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. (Quote by - Titus Livius)

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, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.'' (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The sea hath fish for every man. (Quote by - William Camden)

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. (Quote by - William Falconer)

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. (Quote by - King Solomon)

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30. (Quote by - Steve Odland)

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. (Quote by - Douglas William Jerrold)

The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape. (Quote by - William Stafford)

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country. (Quote by - Anonymous)

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. (Quote by - John Keats)

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. (Quote by - Joshua Slocum)

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way. (Quote by - Thomas John Barnardo)

I think the concept of the sea is very important. (Quote by - Alejandro Amenabar)

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea. (Quote by - John C. Reilly)

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. (Quote by - Washington Irving)

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. (Quote by - George Byron)

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. (Quote by - John Lubbock)

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. (Quote by - Chanakya)

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. (Quote by - Lawrence Hargrave)

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