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Quote by William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! – John Keats

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Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. – Hermann Broch

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