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Letter "T" » The Sea
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, engines, erected, erecting, erects, history of science, lighthouse, lighthouses, literature, sea change, speculation, speculations, standstill, The Lighthouse, The Sea, windows
«Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.»
«for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea»
«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.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
excellent, Fields, lakes, Lake of, mountain, rivers, schoolmasters, the Mountain, The Sea, woods
«I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.»
«God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.»
«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»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Leadership,
Longing,
Motivation
| Keywords:
assign, assigning, assigns, build, collect, collects, drum, drummed, drumming, drum up, endless, immensity, Into the Woods, sea, sea a, ship, shipped, shipping, tasks, the Endless, The Sea, wood
«Follow the river and you will find the sea»
«As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
All My, come back, gaze, legends, romantic, romantics, The Legend, The Romantic, The Sea
«`Wouldst thou' - so the helmsman answered. - / `Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers / Comprehend its mystery!'»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
answered, brave, comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, dangers, helmsman, mystery, sea, The Sea, The Secret, thou
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