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Frank Herbert1 quote
There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves. — Frank Herbert · 1985Henry Beston1 quote
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. — Henry Beston · 1928Matthew Arnold1 quote
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean. — Matthew Arnold · 1867Percy Bysshe Shelley1 quote
I see the waves upon the shore,
Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1824William Shakespeare1 quote
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare · 1609