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For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
Christopher Columbus
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Christopher Columbus
Died: 1506
Died: May 19
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Franciscan Tertiary
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Cristoforo Colombo
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Cristóbal Colón
Cristobal Colon
Christofer Columbus
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He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
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I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.
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I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.
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Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.
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Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
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It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.
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After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
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Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
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Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
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And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said
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The crew of the caravel Nina also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.
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By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
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