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"Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali."
"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"
"Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there."
"Life is a journey through either experiences or experiment."
"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"
"We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment."
"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
"Every new travel brings new transformation."
Explore more quotes by William Falconer
"The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be."
"The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind."
"A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter."
"The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery."
"Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges."
"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known."
"The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station."
"Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions."
"In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy."
"The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy."
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