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“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.”

Mind Sea Sky Objects Travel Crosses Busy Ships Happy Life Idleness Carriages

Author:Horace

“He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.”

Should Humans Remember Objects Travel Entertainment Human Life Remarks

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

“Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.”

People Ifs Trying Ideas Bits Sleep Objects Strange Adventure Travel Sticks Mess Worthwhile No Sleep Bad Food

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”

Men Littles Long Home Age Time Too Much Objects Adventure Periods Travel Aging Mediocrity Repent Life And Love Funny Adventure

Book:How to enjoy your life and your job

Source: How to enjoy your life and your job

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”

“A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.”

May Body Light Causes Sides Nature Sun Objects Travel Stronger Clouds Landscape Compare Atmosphere Relief Luminous

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.”

Eye Faces Nature Air Objects Travel Surface Transmit

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.”

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Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.”

Ifs Littles Risk Loneliness New York Objects Cold Civilization Travel Hunger Extremes London Paris Heat Thirst Centre Ingenuity

Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh