More from Sir Richard Francis Burton

  1. Starting in a hollowed log of wood - some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'Why?' and t…
  2. The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
  3. The recruit must be carefully and sedulously taught when meeting the enemy, even at a trot or canter, to use no force whatever, otherwise h…
  4. The Translator has ventured to entitle a 'Lay of the Higher Law' the following composition, which aims at being in advance of its time; and…
  5. Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
  6. Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
  7. Of the gladest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort…
  8. Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the 'I,' When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:

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