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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

Jules Verne

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

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