I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wi…

William Hazlitt
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. ✨ William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
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