Famous quotes containing the words sea, level and/or rise:
“If the sea were ink
For the words of my Lord,
the sea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.”
—QurAn. The Cave 18:109, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)
“No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A thousand golden sheaves were lying there,
Shining and still, but not for long to stay
As if a thousand girls with golden hair
Might rise from where they slept and go away.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (18691935)
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