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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Born: Feb 22, 1819
Died: Aug 12, 1891

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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. John F. Kennedy
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. Don Miguel Ruiz
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. B. R. Ambedkar
Life Alone Man Water Independence Drop Ocean Lose Society Unlike Independent Born Self He Development Identity Does Loses His Being Which Lives
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life Silence Speak Darkness Ocean Other Distant Signal Only Voice Look Another Pass Passing Ships Again Then Shown Each Night
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa
Drop Ocean Ourselves Would Would-Be Feel Missing Because Doing Just Less
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
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Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. Morihei Ueshiba
Wisdom Great Thoughts Yourself Light Sky Mind Power Ocean Vast Highest Clear Empty Always Heat Body Your Your Body Fill Filled Keep Bright Peak Enlightenment

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