Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNEIt seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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