“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.” ThinkingWayLittlesWholeSeemsPastWaterConsciousnessExperienceDepthLakesTransparentPast Experiences Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.” ArtSaidWholeNamesWaterBornLinesChancePoorBoysSeaDyingFieldsRiversLaysLipsCaughtFishesBoatStreamsLakesFishingSwimShoreEstatesHookInheritancePreyMy BoysPasturesOxen Author:Ovid
“. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.” FirstsWholeSeaRiversSeasonsFishesSatisfactionBoatEveningLakesFishing Author:Arthur Ransome
“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.” MenYearsEnoughWholeSpiritualRecordsSeaSeriousRiversSeasonsFishesBoatLakesFishingAnguish Author:Ed Zern