Famous quotes containing the words read, sea and/or duty:
“It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty—the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)