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Quotes by Explorer
"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."
Man,
65
"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South."
60
"Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude."
59
"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
57
"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be."
56
"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
55
"If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest."
50
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
47
"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls."
42
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
30
"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."
28
"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting."
25
"We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things."
25
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
25
"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
24
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
24
"Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention."
23
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
23
"In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death."
23
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
22
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
22
"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong."
21
"During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home."
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