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• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.

  Henry Beston

  Heart, Moon, Blood

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Beach, Writing, Adversity

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• Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Boredom, Excitement

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Men, Blood

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Middle, Vocation, Streams

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• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

  Edward Gorey

  Distance, Twilight, Party

  Edward Gorey (1953). “The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel”, Harcourt

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• Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

  Ralph Ellison

  Crush, Art, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.133, Modern Library

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• When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

  Aaron Hill

  Wine, Water, Red

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• Who knows what the tide could bring.

  William Broyles, Jr.

  Inspiring Movie, Cast Away, Castaway

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• Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

  H. G. Wells

  Beach, Heart, Men

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• Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles.  Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Heart, Young Friends

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.41, SPCK

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• An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New
  Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not
  new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Humor, Fields

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Ocean, Sadness, Tears

  Song: I Will Not Forget You, 1991

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• These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

  William C. Bryant

  Struggle, Fate, Aimless Life

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Crowded Street”

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• The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.

  Corey Ford

  Beach, War, Ocean

  Corey Ford (2003). “Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK”, p.11, Graphic Arts Books

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• There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

  Nik Kershaw

  Hair, Trying, Stem

  "What I see in the mirror" by Nik Kershaw, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Loyalty, Pride, Men

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.179, Island Press

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• In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

  Ruth Park

  Morning, Sea, Sky

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• Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Friendship, Happy Life, Giving

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• What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

  A. C. Benson

  Beauty, Uplifting, Song

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• To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

  John Denver

  Philosophy, Ocean, Wind

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• You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

  Regina Spektor

  Fun, Hate, Fall

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Eye, Moon

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• Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

  Bob Burg

  Generosity, Giving, Ships

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