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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
We want ... to plunge into the depths of the abyss, Hell or Heaven, what does it matter? into the depths of the Unknown to find so ...
To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an em ...
Well, Philippe, he died because of his work. He was like an--like an explorer in a wild country where no one had ever been before. ...
The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you ge ...
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
While the old couple, just astir,
Fancy the sunrise left the door ajar!
Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
...
... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he ...
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and d ...
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