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Humphrey Gilbert
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“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!”
Humphrey Gilbert (1539–1583) first seen 1583 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dying words as his frigate Squirrel sank in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores, 5 August 1583, Quoted in Richard Hakluyt, The Third and Last Volume of the Voyages of the English Nation (1600). Chamber's Dictionary of Qu…