A God, a God their severance ruled! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.
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Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.
Matthew ArnoldThe cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
karen blixenHow melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.
sir richard francis burtonIn Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
ernest hemingwayA slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.
jimmy hoffaOh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal!
I don't trust anybody who's never eaten bread with the salt of tears.
Takeshi KaikoBeing kissed bya man who didn't wax his moustache waslike eating an egg without salt.
Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!
george ohsawaNot worth his salt.
petroniusYou will follow us soon! Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood!
maximilien robespierreI have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold--and praying with fervor for the Communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.
richard wurmbrandGive neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it. (Strauss, 1994 p. 661)Keep your own counsel.
“I smell fennel,” Launcelot said. “That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.”
Donald BarthelmeWho hath desired the Sea? the sight of salt water unbounded The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?
rudyard kiplingAny opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.
ilana mercerThose eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears, Sham'd their aspect with store of childish drops.
william shakespeareHer father was a fisherman, with a beard that tasted of salt, and fingers that smelled like the sea.
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
I really didn't dare to send it across the Atlantic the whales are so inconsiderate. They'd have been sure to want to borrow it to show to the little whales, quite forgetting that the salt water would be sure to ruin it.
We have some salt of our youth in us.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King