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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.
~e.e. cummings

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.  ~Annie Dillard

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.  ~Joseph Conrad

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.  ~Isak Dinesen

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea.  No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.  ~H.M. Tomlinson

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.  ~Author Unknown

Ocean:  A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.  ~Ambrose Bierce

The sea has never been friendly to man.  At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.  ~Joseph Conrad

Praise the sea; on shore remain.  ~John Florio

The great sea makes one a great sceptic.  ~Richard Jefferies

And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
~Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity

Why do we love the sea?  It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.  ~Robert Henri

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den.  It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.  ~William Hazlitt

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.  ~James Russell Lowell

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.  ~George Herbert