“A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.”
Thomas Browne (1605–1682) English polymath
On Dreams
“As a little skiff attached to a great ship, when the storm blows high, takes in her small share of the raging waters and tosses in the same south wind.”
iv, line 120
Silvae, Book I
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