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Travelling: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
The travelled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.— AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT — Table-Talk.
Travelling. Travelling is no fool's errand to him who. carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.— AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT — Table-Talk.
Travelling. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.— BACON — Of Travel.
Go far too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing ;- One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Woman's Prize. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 199.
I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto III.
१. St. 1. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land-Good-night!— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto I. St. 13. Song.
He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. S.— FERNANDO CORTEZ — See PRESCOTT'S Conquest of Mexico. Bk. V. Ch. III.
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. I.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.— FULLER — The Holy and Profane States.
Of Travelling. Maxim IV. One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. V. L. 749.
Bryant's trans. As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of
Johnson. 1778. Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.— SAM'L JOHNSON- — Boswell's Life of
Johnson. 1773. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. C.— SAM'L JOHNSON — PIOZZI's Johnsoniana.
154. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been, Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.— KEATS — On First Looking into
Chapman's Homer. The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.— LOUIS XV — While Looking at Mme. de
Pompadour's Funeral. Better sit still where born, I say, Wed one sweet woman and love her well, Love and be loved in the old East way, Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell, Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles, And to sail the thousands of watery miles In search of love, and find you at last On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast.— JOAQUIN MILLER — Pace Implora.
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.— CHRISTINA ROSSETTI — Up-Hill.
Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 33.
I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L.
Cœlum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est. They change their sky not their mind who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us; we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 11. 27.