One who journeying
Along a way he knows not, having crossed
A place of drear extent, before him sees
A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,
And all its tossing current white with foam,
And stops and turns, and measures back his way.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. V, l. 749), (Bryant's translation)
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from
exclusiveness and egotism.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Quotes , Source: Table-Talk--Traveling
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and
itinerary along with him.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Quotes , Source: Table-Talk--Traveling
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the
elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country
before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school,
and not to travel.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Of Travel
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Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,
Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,
The poorer and the baser you appear,
The more you look through still.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Quotes , Source: The Woman's Prize (act IV, sc. 5, l. 199)
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And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he
said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Exodus (ch. II, v. 22)
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He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.
Hernando Cortez
Quotes , Source: see Prescott "Conquest of Mexico", bk. V, ch. III
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I love to travel,
But hate to arrive.
Hernando Cortez
Quotes , Source: see Prescott "Conquest of Mexico", bk. V, ch. III
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Lee Frost
Quotes , Source: The Road Not Taken
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest
over the threshold thereof.
Thomas Fuller
Quotes , Source: The Holy and Profane States--Of Traveling (maxim IV)
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
[It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]
Goldoni
Quotes , Source: Pamela (I, 16)
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Let observation with observant view,
Observe mankind from China to Peru.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: paraphrasing of Johnson
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They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy
idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and
carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
[Lat., Coelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.
Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque
Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est.]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Epistles (I, 11, 27)
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I am fevered with the sunset,
I am fretful with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me
And my soul is in Cathay.
Richard Hovey
Quotes , Source: A Sea Gypsy
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The wonders of each region view,
From frozen Lapland to Peru.
Soame Jenkyns (Jenyns)
Quotes , Source: Epistle to Lord Lovelace, suggested Johnson's lines in "Vanity of Human Wishes"
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As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth
of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So
it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he
would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place
where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is
known.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and,
instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Piozzi's Johnsoniana (154)
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Let observation with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Vanity of Human Wishes
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Follow the Romany Patteran
Sheer to the Austral light,
Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,
Sweeping the sea floors white.
Rudyard Kipling
Quotes , Source: The Gypsy Trail
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Down to Gehenna or up to the throne,
He travels the fastest who travel alone.
Rudyard Kipling
Quotes , Source: The Winners
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The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.
Louis XV
Quotes , Source: while looking at Mme. De Pompadour's Funeral
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