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 2. A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

 3. A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

 4. A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.

 5. A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad. I fear you have sold your own lands, to see other men's; then to have seen much, and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

 6. A wise traveler never despises his own country.

 7. All travel has its advantages.If the traveler visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy his own.

 8. As long as you watch the way, As long as your steps are steady, As long as your wisdom is unimpaired, So long will you reap profit.

 9. As the bee takes the essence of a flowerand flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life.

10. As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

11. Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

12. Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.

13. Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

14. Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

15. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

16. He traveled here, he traveled there - But not the value of a hair Was heart or head the better.

17. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

18. I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

19. I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

20. If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

21. If you will be a traveller, have always...two bags very full, that is one of patience and another of money.

22. It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

23. It is not worth while to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

24. Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

25. Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

26. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

27. Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

28. Nature's way is straight and unerring, foursquare and calm, great and tolerant. Everything is accomplished without the necessity of fabricated purpose. Man's way is equally self-evident. His internal principles are correct; his external acts are righteous; his results are certain.

29. Never any weary traveller complained that he came too soon to his journey's end.

30. No road to happiness or sorrow... Find them in yourself.

31. O'er the glad water of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!

32. One hundred and one subtle ways come from the heart. One of them rises to the crown of the head. This is the way that leads to immortality; the others lead to different ends.

33. One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

34. One may know the world without going out of doors. One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows. The further one goes, the less one knows. Therefore the sage knows without going about, Understands without seeing, And accomplishes without any action.

35. Rather see the wonders of the world abroad than, living dully sluggardized at home, wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

36. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

37. The bright and dark paths out of the world have always existed. Whoso takes the former, returns not; he who chooses the latter, returns.

38. The great Way is calm and large-hearted, For it nothing is easy, nothing is hard; Small views are irresolute, The more in haste the tardier they go.

39. The journey of high honour lies not in smooth ways.

40. The map appears to us more real than the land.

41. The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home... Travelling is a fool's paradise.

42. The travelled mind is the universal mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

43. The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must bean actor as well as a spectator.

44. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

45. The Wanderer finds success through smallness. Perseverance brings good fortune to The Wanderer.

46. The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

47. The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.

48. There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

49. 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.

50. Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.

51. Thou canst not travel on the path before thou hast become that Path itself.

52. To see the world is to judge the judges.

53. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

54. Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

55. Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

56. Travel is the perfect liberty to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

57. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

58. Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

59. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

60. We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time,the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...

61. We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

62. We that acquaint ourselves with every zone And pass both tropics and behold the poles, When we come home are to ourselves unknown And unacquainted still with our own souls.

63. When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.

64. White pebbles just from the river-stream, Stray leaves red in the cold autumn: No rain is falling on the mountain path, But my clothes are damp in the fine green air.