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    The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and,
    instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest
over the threshold thereof.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest
over the threshold thereof.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Traveling Quotes,
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The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.

The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.

by Louis Xv Found in: Traveling Quotes,
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One who journeying
Along a way he knows not, having crossed
A place of drear extent, before read more

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.

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As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth
of the Indies must carry the wealth read more

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 traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he
would bring home knowledge.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Traveling Quotes,
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Let observation with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager read more

Let observation with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Traveling Quotes,
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from
exclusiveness and egotism.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from
exclusiveness and egotism.

by Amos Bronson Alcott Found in: Traveling Quotes,
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Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
One read more

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.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the
elder, a part of experience. He that read more

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.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Traveling Quotes,
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And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he
said, I have been a read more

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he
said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

by Bible Found in: Traveling Quotes,
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