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

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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Truth
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Samuel Johnson
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Dont think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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Retirement
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Samuel Johnson
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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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Oceans

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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Oceans

There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave. – Proverb

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Oceans

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

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Whatever happens in life is fine – just trust in that. – Orlando Bloom

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