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“Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?”

Doe Force Causes Clear Sea Wind Calm Wave Oil Smooth Pouring Slipping Navigation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.”

War Sea Mountain Remove Engines Smooth Rude Highways Spoil Loaded Move Mountains

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.”

Sun Clear Cutting Sea Food Huge Essence Cooking Surface Setting Bitter Settings Rising Culinary Smooth Lemons Illuminating Membranes

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.”

Sea Produce Smooth Sailor Skillful Turbulent Times

Book:Though Waters Roar

Source: Though Waters Roar

“Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.”

Generations Sea Horse Glasses Woods Necks Smooth

Book:Old and New Poems: Donald Hall

Source: Old and New Poems: Donald Hall

“In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.”

“If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!”

Ifs Thinking Life Dream Life Is Sea Sweet Wave Bitter Smooth Awakened Slap Sweet Dreams

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.”

Mind Heaven Attitude Sea Goodness Oil Weather Smooth Precious Gifts Good Nature Good Weather

Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.”

Has Beens Made Stills Light Next Morning Sea Moon Picks Stones Blue Pockets Smooth

Book:All of Us: The Collected Poems

Source: All of Us: The Collected Poems

“I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.”

Source: Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )