On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
JULES VERNEAnything a man can imagine, another can create.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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