Quotes by Daniel Boone - Page 1

I'm going now. My time has come.
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Last Words
My Time
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Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.
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Heaven
Kentucky
Kind
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It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
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Danger
Inconvenience
Midst
Dangers
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Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
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Interesting
Spices
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Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
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Doe
Lightning
Strikes
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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Nature
Delight
Fund
Series
Wonder
Here
Wonders
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Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!
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Knows
Made
Peace With God
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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Cowboy
Danger
Exposed
Situation
Constantly
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No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
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Determination
Lost
Three
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I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.
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Bewildered
Lost
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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Happiness
Good
Good Wife
Gun
Horse
Laughter
Wife
Need
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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Diversity
Impossible
Melancholy
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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Inspirational
Confused
Confusion
Lost
Will
Admit
Being
Never
Been
Weeks
Several
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I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.
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Confused
Three
Woods
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I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
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Fortune
Way
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Enemy
Kentucky
Rivers
Yards
Began
Fort
River
Situated
Undermine
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone / Author
Men
Curiosity
Influence
Interesting
Natural
Objects
Powerful
Soul
Affections
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I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
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Fear
Men
Giving
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
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Men
Following
Fourth
Hundred
July
Party
Wounded
Attacked
Indians
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
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War
Almighty
Ambition
Associates
Goodness
Hated
Insatiable
Land
Accursed
Banish
Lands
Monster
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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Astonishing
Delight
Summit
Ample
Beheld
Below
Commanding
Round
Gained
Plains
Ridge
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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Army
Country
Defence
Hero
Powerful
Scene
Zeal
Heroes
Attack
Experienced
Few Men
Led
Warriors
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Daniel Boone / Author
Men
Country
Exposed
Helpless
Savages
White Man
Amongst
Beasts
Wild
Daily
Perils
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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Charming
Country
Diversity
Gloomy
One Day
Beauties
Through
Expelled
Met
Season
Tour
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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Blessing
Commerce
Descending
Hands
Heaven
Joyful
League
Nations
Plenty
Spring
Amidst
Scatter
Bid
Blessings
Hand
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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Aggravation
Decline
Kentucky
Rivers
Thick
Brow
Indians
Near
Prisoners
River
Rushed
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Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
Daniel Boone / Author
Men
Adventure
Taken
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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Family
Home
Determination
Fortune
Kentucky
Paradise
Risk
Life Family Home
After
Bring
Possible
Esteemed
My Life
Returned
Second
Soon
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The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.
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Jesus
Believe
Littles
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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Happy
Men
Believe
Breasts
Companion
Enjoyment
Felicity
Philosophy
Content
External
Whatever
External Things
Firmly
Rather
Requires
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Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms
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Goal
Night
Storm
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Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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Men
Civilization
White Man
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Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
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Adventure
Circumstances
Country
Memorable
Movement
Relate
Satisfaction
Life Myself Day
Adventures
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During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
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Home
Affection
Give Me
Giving
Hundred
Parole
Pounds
Purpose
Sterling
Home Great Me
Although
Entertained
Leave
Governor
Indians
Offered
Refused
Travels
Utterly
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.
Daniel Boone / Author
Men
Powerful
Selfish
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Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.
Daniel Boone / Author
War
Country
Kentucky
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