"To move, to breathe, to fly, to..." - Quote by Hans Christian Andersen
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
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“Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.”
“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
“Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence”
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“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.”
“I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.”
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.”
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“Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.”
“To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.”
“The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.”