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“Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.”

Millions Sea Solitude Mortals Thrown

Author:Matthew Arnold

“How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.”

Men Littles Dream Young Water Sea Shadow Blue Lays Pursue Thrown Shade Bark

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.”

Thinking Way Heart May Reality Language Strong Sea Letters Dialogue Instance Thrown Bottles Stakes Routes Shoreline Letter In A Bottle

Author:Paul Celan

“For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.”

World Looks Reality Turns Sea Share Weakness Rounds Awful Ministers Enterprise Necks Thrown Tied Cover Ups

Book:Readings from Huxley

Source: Readings from Huxley

“They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.”

Christian Sea Taught Angel Desert Beast Thrown Orthodox Egypt Hostile Pits Dew Famine Pillars Obstinate Furnaces Wild Beasts

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.”

Today Evil Race Millions Rich Wise Sea Mankind Produce Serious Thousand Hundred Dollars Charity Obstacles Improvement Nine Cures Fifty Thrown Being Wise Unworthy

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.”

Made Form Artist Three Cities Sea Tough Organization Accepted Corporations Thrown Belonging Survived Three Times Ceremony Medieval Rite Traders Initiation Chimneys Norway Guilds

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.”

Wanted Dies Sea Ocean Thrown Overboard

Author:Aoife O'Donovan

“Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets. Roughly one-third of what is dragged in is not profitable fish, but other sea animals, including turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, and seabirds. These beings are referred to by the fishing industry as "by-catch." Severely traumatized and wounded, these animals are subsequently thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying.”

Enough Animal Sea Dying Industry Ocean Thirds Including Caught Fishes Thrown Fishing Factories Unfortunate Wounded Profitable Whales Seals Dolphins Turtles Haul

Author:Sharon Gannon

“He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.”

Sides Dark Sun Growing Sea Century Flower Lows Blue Rose Hills France Colour Native Thrown Shade Mexico Retreat Violet Purple Variation Velvet Lavender New Mexico Weavers

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

“All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.”

Should Funny Sea Boxes Thrown

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley