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  • It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of winter. See Eliot 306:73.

    - Lancelot Andrewes
      Of the Nativity, sermon15.

  • Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now.

    - Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
      Title of book.

  • Heureux, qui comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage, Ou comme cestuy la'   qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourne  , plein d'usage et raison, Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son a"  ge! Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has taken a wondrous journey Or has won the Golden Fleece, And then returns home wise and useful To live in his homeland the rest of his days.

    -Joachim du Bellay
      Les Regrets, no.31.

  • Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be wakened.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Kings18:27.

  • But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough, now,O L, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD1 Kings19:4.

  • Mi advise to them who are about tu begin, in arnest, the jurneyov life, istu take their harte in one hand and a club in the other.

    -Josh pseudonym of  Henry Wheeler Shaw Billings
      Josh Billings, His Sayings, ch.71.

  • Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura che   la diritta via era smarrita. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood where the straight path was lost.

    -Dante Alighieri originally Durante
    c.1320  Divina Commedia,'Inferno', canto1, l.1^3.

  • These two ignorant and unpolished people had guided themselves so faron in their journey of life, bya religious sense of duty and desire to do right.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^5  Of Mr and Mrs Boffin. Our Mutual Friend, bk.1, ch.9.

  • Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

    -John Dryden
      Palamon and  Arcite, bk.3, l.883^8.

  • Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I well this journey be his, and the honoure thereof. 300

    -Edward III
      Of his16-year-old son, Edward the Black Prince. Quoted in the Chronicle of Froissart (translated by Sir  John Bourchier, Lord Berners,1523^5), ch.130.

  • A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      'The  Journey of the Magi'.

  •    You define your own horror journey, according to your taste. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Add discomfort, fatigue, strain in large amounts to get the purest-quality horror, but the kernel is boredom. I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called byanyother name, iswhy you yearn for the first available transport out.But what bores whom?† The threshold of boredom must be like the threshold of pain, different in all of us.

    - Martha Ellis Gellhorn
      Travels with Myself and  Another.

  • Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

    - A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
      A Shropshire Lad, no.4.

  • Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

    - Sir Harry (Hugh MacLennan) Lauder
      'The End of the Road', chorus.

  • Now it is autumn and the falling fruit And the long journey towards oblivion† Have you built your ship of death,O have you?

    - D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
      'The Ship of Death'.

  • Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey.

    - Henry Demarest Lloyd
      Wealth against Commonwealth, ch.1.

  • Whenever I prepare fora journey I prepare as though for death. Should Ineverreturn, all isinorder.Thisiswhat life has taught me.

    -Beauchamp
       Journal entry, 29  Jan.

  • The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty to think, feel, do just as one pleases.We go on a journeychiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind, much moretoget rid of others.It is because I want a little breathing space to muse on different matters†that I absent myself from thetown for a while.

    - Morris Marples
    Quoted in  John Hillaby  Journey through Britain (1968).

  • No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey.

    - C(harles) Wright Mills
      The Sociological Imagination, ch.1.

  •    Never before had I embarked on a journey that required courage.

    - Dame (Jean) Iris Murdoch
      On embarking on travels andresearch into the problems of Northern Ireland.  A Place Apart.

  •    A Long Day's Journey Into Night.

    - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
    ^41  Title of play (published1956).

  • Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

    - Christina Georgina Rossetti
      Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Up-Hill'.

  •    The beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'Epipsychidion', l.154^9.

  • This is the prospect from the watershed, and when the traveller reaches it, it is a good thing to take an hour's leisure and lookout on the visible portions of the journey, since never in one's life can one seethe same view twice.

    - Dame Freya Madeleine Stark
      Perseus in theWind.

  • A journey is like a marriage. The certainway to be wrong is to think you control it.

    -John Ernest Steinbeck
      TravelsWith Charley In Search of America, pt.1.

  • If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
      An InlandVoyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

  •    I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. 832

    -Jonathan Swift
      Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

  • A man who, until he made the journey from London, thought that woad began at Watford.

    - Godfrey Walker Talbot
      Ten Seconds from Now, ch.3. An early reference to the'north of Watford'concept, in whichWatford is regarded as the limit of 'civilization' northwards from London.

  • To journey is better than to arriveor so say those who have already arrived.

    - Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
      The Heart of the Country,'Doing It AllWrong'.

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