"Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the……" — Richard Francis Burton
"Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands."
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Richard Francis Burton
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19 Quotes by Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton has 19 quotes on this site.
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The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
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One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
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Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be…
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the…
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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
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If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh…
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who…
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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off…
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I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And…
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Home is where the books are
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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue...
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More Departure Quotes
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one of 185 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
— Joe Biden
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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become…
— David Bowie
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies…
— Edmund Burke
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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point…
— Winston Churchill
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Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get…
— Tori Amos
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
— Mark Twain
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at…
— Paul de Man
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