“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”
Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Book VII (1765), Ch. 2.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.”
— Clifford D. Simak, book Time and Again
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XLI (p. 204)
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Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 1, Nature <br class="br">Context: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! <br class="br">Context: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
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George Chapman The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
Act III, scene i.
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In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 40
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“How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone.”
James Hudson Taylor A Retrospect
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