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50 Explorer Quotes

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind.
Nature Soothing Mind Tormented
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Write Half Saw Believed
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I speak and speak, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Speak Listener Retains Words
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My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

Heart Beats Breathe
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The true sweetness of wine is one flavor
True Sweetness Wine Flavor
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There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Stages Scientific Discovery People
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
True Enjoyment Activity Mind
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Government Best Makes Unnecessary
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Convinced Happiness Unhappiness Depends
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Great Evil Immorality Forget
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Glance Important Revolutions Greatest
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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Person Masters Fate Important
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Citizen Indifferent Fellows Husband
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

War Seems Salutary Phenomena
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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

Insight Universal Nature Intellectual.delight
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Usually Important Man Meets
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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Collaborate Operate Process Successful
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There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

Education Races Cultured Advance
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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Only Wrought Character Life
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With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
Animals Man Alertness Diminishes
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The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Philosophical Nature Endeavors Vicissitudes
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Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
Nature Soothing Tormented Mind
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The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

Dangerous Worldview Never Viewed
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Cruelty Animals Significant Vices
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

Admit Been Being Confused
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Action Army Attack Country
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Affections Curiosity Influence Interesting
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

Believe Breasts Companion Content
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

Dangers Happy Inconvenience Midst
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Hand Blessings Scatter Amidst
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Almighty Ambition Associates Banish
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Delight Fund Here Nature
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Beasts Country Daily Death
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Good Need Horse Gun
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Against Blunder Former However
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Angry Daily Earnest Falling
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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
Another Death Dozen Man
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Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Surrounded Troops Wandering Were
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Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Aroused Between Cry Enemy
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You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never cross The ocean You have The courage
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Gold is a treasure and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world.

Gold A treasure Possesses it He wishes
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Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Riches Don't make Man rich Him busier
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The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

The sea New hope Sleep Bring dreams
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No one should fear to undertake any task.

No one Should fear Undertake Any task
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Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.

Life More imagination We carry Our dreams
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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent.

Nothing Results Human progress Achieved
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Thus God gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.

Gives victory Who follow Apparent impossibilities
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Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.

Goals Simply tools Focus Your energy
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I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Have come Believe Mighty continent
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By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Prevailing over All obstacles Distractions Unfailingly arrive
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