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Letter "S" » seas
«We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.»
Author: H. P Lovecraft
(Author)
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Civilization,
Humanity,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Science
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«For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time»
Author: Henry Beston
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glimpse, horizons, mortality, pilgrims, seas, space and time, stream, voyaging
«Different fields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish»
«A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.»
«[A] mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.»
«CORSAIR, n. A politician of the seas.»
«Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you alone, yourself and nameless? But you are young and I am old. Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
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«A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words, ?Who can this be? Even the wind and the waves obey him.?»
«As the seas and the oceans are overflowing with water, so vast are my own sins.»
«And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.»
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