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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue…
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The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
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Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that…
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is…
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Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he…
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The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in…
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I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose…
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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with…
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A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are…
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all…
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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have…
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Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.
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