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• The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.

  David Livingstone

  Country, Heart, Animal

  David Livingstone (2012). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868”, p.42, tredition

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• God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

  David Livingstone

  Son, Missionary, Motto

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• The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.

  David Livingstone

  Beautiful, Fall, Islands

  David Livingstone (1857). “Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa”, p.244

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• I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, Exploration, Ends

  "David Livingstone: Missionary to Africa".

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• I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

  David Livingstone

  Office, Missionary, Missions

  David Livingstone, Adam Sedgwick (1860). “Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge lectures: together with a prefatory letter”, p.167

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• I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled so to do, and having felt in some measure its effects on my still depraved and deceitful heart, it is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to his service.

  David Livingstone

  Believe, Heart, Attachment

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• It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

  David Livingstone

  Views, Years, Missionary

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• I am a missionary, heart and soul.

  David Livingstone

  Heart, Soul, Missionary

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• Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

  David Livingstone

  Providence, Call Me, Regions

  David Livingstone (1961). “Livingstone's Missionary Correspondence, 1841-1856”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

  David Livingstone

  Children, Father, Secret

  David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”

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• Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

  David Livingstone

  Feet, Space, Twenties

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• It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

  David Livingstone

  Writing, Easier

  David Livingstone (1859). “LIVINGSTONES'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SO UTH AFRICA”, p.17

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• Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.

  David Livingstone

  Night, Missionary, Stills

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• .... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

  David Livingstone

  Eye, Exercise, Journey

  David Livingstone (2012). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868”, p.42, tredition

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