Famous quotes containing the words ancient, sea and/or kings:
“I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them—the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.”
—Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
“Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 3:9.
Solomon to God.
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