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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. – Samuel Johnson

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A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness! – Albert Camus

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