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Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
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Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,
Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,
The poorer and the baser you appear,
The more you look through still.
The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.
The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.
One who journeying
Along a way he knows not, having crossed
A place of drear extent, before read more
One who journeying
Along a way he knows not, having crossed
A place of drear extent, before him sees
A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,
And all its tossing current white with foam,
And stops and turns, and measures back his way.
I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by
When Albion's lessening shores could grieve read more
I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by
When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from
exclusiveness and egotism.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from
exclusiveness and egotism.
In traveling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools' pleasure.
In traveling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools' pleasure.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
[It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
[It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy
idleness possesses us: we seek a read more
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy
idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and
carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
[Lat., Coelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.
Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque
Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est.]
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest
over the threshold thereof.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest
over the threshold thereof.