Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin — his control
Stops with the shore.George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 179 (1818)
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Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears that we never use.
Charles Schulz (1922-2000) American cartoonist
Peanuts [Linus] (1981-05-29)
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The phrase was also used as the title in a Peanuts collection of Linus' wisdom, Life Is Like A Ten-Speed Bicycle (1997), which included this strip.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnified world in itself.
Henry Miller (1891-1980) American novelist
Plexus, ch. 2 (1953)
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Sometimes misquoted as "magnificent world".
I don’t mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.
