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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

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The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. – William Hazlitt

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt

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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. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The ocean moans over dead mens bones. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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To me, the sea is like a person — like a child that Ive known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when Im out there. – Gertrude Ederle

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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. – Rachel Carson

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