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Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

Men

Sea

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Junipero Serra

Land

Sea

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

Robert Falcon Scott

Sea

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Carl Schurz

Ideals

Sea

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery