Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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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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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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