It is easy to discover what another has... by Christopher Columbus | We Heart Quotes

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It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

- Christopher Columbus

Other quotes by Christopher Columbus

Purpose Will

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

- Christopher Columbus

Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

- Christopher Columbus

Night

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

- Christopher Columbus

Men People

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

- Christopher Columbus

Light World

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

- Christopher Columbus

People

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

- Christopher Columbus

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