12 Quotes by Samuel Johnson about travel

  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

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    To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

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    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.

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

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