Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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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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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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 am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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