All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

כָּל־הַנְּחָלִים֙ הֹלְכִ֣ים אֶל־הַיָּ֔ם וְהַיָּ֖ם אֵינֶ֣נּוּ מָלֵ֑א

Ecclesiastes 1:7

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Ocean and sea

Source

Ecclesiastes The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Hebrew

Time

931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 1:7).

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Another quote about Ocean and sea

Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

Arthur Rimbaud

The Drunken Boat

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Ocean and sea

Author

Arthur Rimbaud
Source
The Drunken Boat
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
French
Time
1871 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.

Current Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Another quote from Classical antiquity

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.

Luke 4:18-19

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Liberation
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Gospel of Luke The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Greek
Time
61 60s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 4:18-19).

Another quote originally in Hebrew

I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 3:8

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Deliverance of Israel Liberation
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Exodus The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Hebrew
Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Exodus 3:8).

Another quote of the following type Paradox

We need in love to practice only this:
Letting each other go. For holding on
Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic
Relationships Letting go

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1909 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Requiem for a Friend." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Vintage, 1989.