“All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169.
“But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full.”
— Hesiod, book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 100.
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