What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that... death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands.... Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end;... Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They went to him and woke him up, shouting, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And he woke up and rebuked the wind and the raging... waves; they ceased, and there was a calm. He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were afraid and amazed, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our fathers water'd with their tears This sea of time whereon we sail,... Their voices were in all men's ears Who pass'd within their puissant hail. Still the same ocean round us raves, But we stand mute, and watch the waves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »