Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts / The teller.
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I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
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Love all, trust a few.
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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
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Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else / in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear / in the eyes.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; / Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, / And trifles life.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
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The displacement of a little sand can change occasionally the course of deep rivers.
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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
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Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.
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History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye—what ye say of me is now of no consequence.
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If one’s object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.
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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
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Niagara Falls is very nice. I’m very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.
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I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.
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When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
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The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral
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Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
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My heart is warm with the friends I make, / And better friends I’ll not be knowing; /Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, / No matter where it’s going.
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[EJvery native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.
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A tourist is an ugly human being.
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They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
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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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I don’t much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.
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Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing.
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Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby,—so helpless and so ridiculous.
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To roam / Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, /.Such freedom doth a banishment become.
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Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel,AVhen the right people stay back home?
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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.
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The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
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