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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend… — Joachim du Bellay
"Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal… — Christopher Columbus
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life… — Gene Roddenberry
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much… — William Bligh
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have… — Zebulon Pike
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any… — Herman Melville
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage… — Edith Wharton
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific… — Lee De Forest
I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances. — Lee De Forest
Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage. — Mary Butts
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that… — Steven Saylor
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the… — Joshua Slocum
To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round… — Joshua Slocum
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut,… — Joshua Slocum
Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails,… — Douglas Clegg
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has… — Vimala Thakar
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. — Dionysius Lardner
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races… — Arthur Rimbaud
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at… — Carl Sagan
Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that… — Jacques Vallee
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge,… — John Galsworthy
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. — Donald Justice
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in… — William Kidd

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