"The tempest was terrible and separated me from……" — Christopher Columbus
"The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?"
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Christopher Columbus
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50 Quotes by Christopher Columbus
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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned…
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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…
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and…
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Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as…
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The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a…
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I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and…
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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so…
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A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and…
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy…
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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction…
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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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