"the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible."

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The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe