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“"We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."”

“The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.”

Men Ends Earth Fighting Causes Water Hurt Lord Sea Holy Mountain Hatred Notes Prophet Quarrels Knowledge Of God True Knowledge

Author:Maimonides

“His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”

Earth President Lord Sea Fields Particular Doctors Fishes British Beast Empires Als Conqueror British Empire Uganda

Author:Idi Amin

“Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!”

“I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.”

Lord Sea Rounds Centre Disputes Royalty Brutes Surveys Monarchs Fowl

Author:William Cowper

“When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last fire is out and the last guest departed Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.”

Lasts Death Prayer Lord Fire Sea Fields Praying Be Good Grants Guests Shallow Harvest I Pray Departed

Book:The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems

Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems

“These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert.”

Men Should May Lord Cutting Sea Honor All Things Gold Pity Desert Titles Shore Traffic Commodity My Thoughts Merchandise

Author:Eliza Haywood

“As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.”

Men World Way War Earth Lord Air Sea Crafts Mortals Boards Sail Sailing Sinking Milky Way Admiral

Book:White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

“Behold your little ones. Pray with them. Pray for them and bless them. The world into which they are moving is a complex and difficult world. They will run into heavy seas of adversity. They will need all the strength and all the faith you can give them while they are yet near you. While they are young, pray with them that they may come to know that source of strength which shall then always be taught of the Lord' and great shall be the peace of thy children.”

Knows World Needs Giving May Children Littles Running Moving Young Difficult Lord Sea Taught Source Praying Adversity Complexes Heavy Bless Source Of Strength

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.”

Certain Waiting Water Lord Seeing Risk Sea Killing Storm Trust In God Thirst Peril Our Lord Certain Death

Book:Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

Source: Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

“As the river enters the sea and loses itself in the sea, so Krishnamurti has entered into that Life which is represented by some as The Christ, by others as The Buddha, by others still, as the Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti as an entity fully developed has entered into the Sea of Life and is the Teacher, because the moment you enter into that Life -which is the fulfilment of all Teachers, which is life of all the Teachers - the individual as such ceases.”

Stills Moments Individual Christ Loses Lord Teacher Sea Rivers Cease Entity Fulfilment

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti