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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, August 17, 1844, to Isaac Hecker, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 408, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
(Paul Theroux (b. 1941), U.S. novelist, travel writer. quoted in Observer (London, Oct. 7, 1979).)
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
(Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Travels with a Donkey, "Cheylard and Luc," (1879).)
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Art," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees.
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. Ulysses (l. 6-7). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Road Not Taken (l. 1-4). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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And in the mean time my songs will travel,
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness,
(Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
(Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Virginibus Puerisque, "El Dorado," (1881).)
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