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“There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.”

Source: The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times

“Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.”

Water Loss Sea Despair Rain Disaster Scales Weather Mist Large Scale

Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut

“There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.”

May Loses Loss Poor Poverty Sea Land Advantage Nothing To Lose

Author:Elizabeth Inchbald

“War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.”

War Lost Loss Sea Bird Destruction Hideous Desolate Sea Birds

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.”

Humans Eye Faces Lying Loss Sea Sadness Intellectual Pity Staring Locked Frozen Disgrace Human Faces

Author:W. H. Auden

“Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.”

Loss Sea Kings Moon Mouths Rose Seven Monsters Over It Thieves Pearls Jewelry Marcos Polo Marco Polo

Book:Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde

“And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world.”

Ifs World Ends Used Loss Cities Sea Rocks Bounds Storm Disaster End Of The World Jersey Jersey City

Author:Laura E. Richards

“We negotiated the construction of a gas pipeline system along the bottom of the Black Sea to Bulgaria. We signed certain treaties of a technical nature, contracts for laying the gas pipeline. And then Bulgaria created such conditions that the project's implementation became impossible, which was obviously against its own national interests. The former Bulgarian leadership was, in fact, aware of that and acknowledged it. But we trusted them when we were launching that project. We sustained losses amounting to millions, several million dollars. We would not want to get into such situations.”