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Christopher Columbus, born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy, was a renowned explorer. He believed that the Earth was round and that by sailing west, he could reach Asia. In 1492, he received funding from the Spanish monarchy and embarked on his voyage. Between 1492 and 1502, he made four voyages to the Americas, discovering the New World and profoundly impacting world history.

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Famous Christopher Columbus Quotes

“An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."”

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Author:Christopher Columbus

“With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.”

Men Soul Can Do Gold Paradise

Author:Christopher Columbus

“These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.”

People Men Made Arms

Author:Christopher Columbus

“I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.”

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Book:Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain

Source: Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain

“The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.”

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Author:Christopher Columbus

“The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?”

“Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.”

Men Rich Riches Busier

Author:Christopher Columbus

“No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.”