If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.