Quote#God & Faith
Is n’t God upon the ocean
Quote byJames Thomas Fields · 1817–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Tempest, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
Is n’t God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?
— James Thomas Fields
You may also like
"I’m an owl; you’re another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.
The skipper stormed and tore his hair, Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden— "Nantucket's sunk and here we are Right over old Marm Hackett’s garden!"
Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.
Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!
Hamlet most brings home to us at once the sense of the soul's infinity, and the sense of the doom which not only circumscribes that infinity but appears to be its offspring.
You cannot dictate to any man what shall be his morality or his own religion. He must make his own choice. Your attempts to impose total sexual abstinence on him he regards as a meddlesome and impertinent interference with the expression …