To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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