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Fear God and work hard.

David Livingstone

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David Livingstone
Age: 60 †
Born: 1813
Born: March 19
Died: 1873
Died: May 1
Explorer
Geographer
Missionary
Physician Writer
Researcher
Blantyre
Lanarkshire
Fear
Hard
Work
Missionary
Missions

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I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.
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I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
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It is far easier to travel than to write about it.
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Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
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Without Christ, not one step with Him, anywhere!
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The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.
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People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.
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The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.
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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
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Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.
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All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
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There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.
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I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
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Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.
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