Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
William HazlittRead
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
Interpretation
Traveling requires an open mind and common sense, while leaving behind preconceived notions.
William Hazlitt's quote emphasizes the importance of approaching new experiences, especially while traveling, with an open mind and practical judgment. It suggests that we should abandon our biases and prejudices in order to fully appreciate and understand different cultures and perspectives encountered during our travels.
In practice
This quote can be used in a travel blog to encourage readers to embrace new experiences.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
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