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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
—
Christopher Columbus
light
Travellers likeare mostly an angry race.
—
Richard Francis Burton
race
Adventure is just bad planning.
—
Roald Amundsen
bad
I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
—
Jacques Cartier
believe
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
—
Samuel de Champlain
future
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
—
James Cook
art
We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
—
Hernan Cortes
art
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
—
Davy Crockett
will
Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.
—
William Dampier
age
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
—
Thor Heyerdahl
art
Ill go anywhere as long as its forward.
—
David Livingstone
war
This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.
—
Henry Hudson
adventure
I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
—
Fridtjof Nansen
war
Without stones there is no arch.
—
Marco Polo
wit
We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
—
Robert Falcon Scott
good
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
—
Ernest Shackleton
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
—
Henry Morton Stanley
art
The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
—
George Vancouver
change
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