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Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea,-- She shall escape, she shall aspire, She shall arise to make men free; She shall arise in a sacred scorn, Lighting the lives that are yet unborn, Spirit supernal, splendor eternal, England!

Helen Gray Cone

The Channel is that silver strip of sea which severs merry England from the tardy realms of Europe.

Unattributed Author

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

John Dryden

This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities!

Thomas Moore

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Plato

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

John Burroughs

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-- They sought a faith's pure shrine!

Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans

A father in a canoe in which his baby is seated walks more carefully than on land.

O Anna Niemus

I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.

Sir Issac Newton

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.—Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

John Unknown

Grudge no expense—yield to no opposition—forget fatigue—till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . . .

Maria Weston Chapman

That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]

Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Will Rogers

We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.

Jayvantsinnji Gohel

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.

W. Secker

Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire.

Robert Southey

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Aneurin Bible

The sea hath fish for every man.

William Camden

The great fishpond (the sea).

Thomas Dekker

God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found, As if the world were in deep waters drowned.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!

Thomas Campbell

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

Norman Fitzroy Maclean

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

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