Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEAn energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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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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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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