Creative Quotations from Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Richard Francis Burton
(1821-1890) born on Mar 19

English "scholar, explorer". He was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate hitherto-forbidden Muslim cities; published 43 volumes on his explorations.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race."

Reason is life's sole arbiter.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

"Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
From none but self expect applause:
He noblest lives and noblest dies
Who makes and keeps his self-made laws."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	''Narrative of a Trip to Harar.'
R:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
N:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K:	""The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yazdi," pt. VIII, st. 37."