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"We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off."
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"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."
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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
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"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
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"Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel."
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"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
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"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."
Wealth
"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."
Morality
"Like it! Yes-the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too."
Nature
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Life
"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul."
Perception
"We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off."
Travel
"Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions."
Philosophy
"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."
Nature
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Inspirational
"Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again. "And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet."
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