Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. – Hans Christian Andersen

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

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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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