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• The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Travel, Eye

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

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• The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Journey

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• You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.

  Peter Marshall

  Nature, Rocks, Hands

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• ...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Dream, Journey, Way

  William Least Heat-Moon (1999). “River-Horse: A Voyage Across America”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Marriage, Travel, Adventure

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Eye, Mean

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• He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Lying, Wind

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• Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

  James Taylor

  Moving, Fall, Water

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• No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Journey, Wind, Decision

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.370, 谷月社

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Moon

  Thomas Merton (1970). “The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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• There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Land, Cheerful

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.306, Univ of California Press

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• The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

  Fred Hoyle

  Journey, Men, Air

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• For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

  Christopher Columbus

  Journey, Use, Maps

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• My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

  Joshua Slocum

  Journey, Boston, Nuts

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.278, Applewood Books

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• As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

  Junipero Serra

  Lying, Journey, Reality

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• A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

  Dale Carnegie

  Public Speaking, Speakers

  Dale Carnegie (1983). “Ht Develop Slf Con”, p.54, IICA Biblioteca Venezuela

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• A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

  Maria Mitchell

  Boys, Journey, Please Me

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Art, Hurt, Home

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.109, Library of America

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• There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Ocean, Army

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Dark, Journey

  Last words, in John Watkins 'Anecdotes of Men of Learning' (1808

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• I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

  John Masefield

  Lonely, Stars, Sea

  "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).

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• Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Men, Years, Civilization

  Star Trek: The Next Generation (television series). This third mission statement was first used in the episode "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987). See Killian 1; Roddenberry 2; Roddenberry 3

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• Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

  George William Curtis

  Creativity, Journey, Imagination

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I.”, p.8

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