Daniel Boone Quotes

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• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  Daniel Boone

  Inspirational, Confused, Confusion

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• It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

  Daniel Boone

  Dies

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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

  Daniel Boone

  Night, Goal, Storm

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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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• All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

  Daniel Boone

  Happiness, Horse, Laughter

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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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• Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

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  Kentucky, Heaven, Kind

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• No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

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  Determination, Three, Lost

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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.

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  Powerful, Selfish, Men

  "The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke". Book by John Filson, the opening lines of "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon; containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke", 1784.

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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.

  Daniel Boone

  Way, Fortune

  "The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer". Book by John Mack Faragher, p. 301, 1993.

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• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

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  Powerful, Men, Interesting

  William Henry BOGART, Daniel BOONE (1856). “Daniel Boone, and the Hunters of Kentucky. (Seventh thousand.) [With plates.]”, p.51

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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.

  Daniel Boone

  Fear, Men, Giving

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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

  Taken, Adventure, Men

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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.

  Daniel Boone

  Determination, Home, Kentucky

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.7, Applewood Books

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• I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

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  Danger, Midst, Inconvenience

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.6, Applewood Books

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• Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!

  Daniel Boone

  Peace With God, Made, Knows

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• I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

  Daniel Boone

  Confused, Three, Woods

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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.

  Daniel Boone

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.4, Applewood Books

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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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  Country, Powerful, Hero

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.22, Applewood Books

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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.

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  Country, War, Kentucky

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books

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• I'm going now. My time has come.

  Daniel Boone

  Last Words, My Time

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• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

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  Delight, Wonder, Fund

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.3, Applewood Books

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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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  Delight, Summit, Astonishing

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.5, Applewood Books

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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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  Kentucky, Aggravation, Rivers

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.35

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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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  Country, Diversity, One Day

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.5, Applewood Books

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