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“As drifting logs of wood may haply meet
On ocean's waters surging to and fro,
And having met, drift once again apart,
So, fleeting is the intercourse of men.
E'en as a traveler meeting with the shade
Of some o'erhung tree, awhile reposes,
Then leaves its shelter to pursue his ways,
So men meet friends, then part with them for ever.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Code of Manu, translation in "Words of Wisdom"
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“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.”
William R. Alger Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--The Brief Chance Encounter
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“Like a plank of driftwood
Tossed on the watery main,
Another plank encountered,
Meets, touches, parts again;
So tossed, and drifting ever,
On life's unresting sea,
Men meet, and greet, and sever,
Parting eternally.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes Source: Book of Good Counsel
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“Like driftwood spares which meet and pass
Upon the boundless ocean-plain,
So on the sea of life, alas!
Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Terrace at Berne
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“We met--'twas a crowd.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes Source: We Met
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“Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide
When, moment on moment, there rushes between
The one and the other, a sea;--
Ah, never can fall from the days that have been
A gleam on the years that shall be!”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: A Lament (l. 10)
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“As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass
close to each other in the naked breadth of the ocean, nay,
sometimes even touch in the dark.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Professor at the Breakfast Table
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“The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Morituri Salutamus (l. 113)
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“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Theologian's Tale--Elizabeth (pt. IV)
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“In life there are meetings which seem
Like a fate.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto III, st. 8)
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“And soon, too soon, we part with pain,
To sail o'er silent seas again.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Meeting of the Ships
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“Some day, some day of days, threading the street
With idle, heedless pace,
Unlooking for such grace,
I shall behold your face!
Some day, some day of days, thus may we meet.”
Nora Perry Quotes Source: Some Day of Days
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“But now will canker sorrow eat my bud
And chase the native beauty from his cheek,
And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,
And so he'll die; and rising so again,
When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
I shall not know him.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, iv)
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“When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (First Witch at I, i)
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“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:
One little hour! and then, away they speed
On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,
To meet no more.”
Alexander Smith Quotes Source: Life Drama (sc. IV)
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“Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,
Then part forever on their courses fleet.”
Edmund C. Stedman Quotes Source: Blameless Prince (st. 51)
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“We shall meet but we shall miss her.”
H.S. Washburn Quotes Source: Song
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