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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Jules Verne

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
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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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
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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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
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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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary

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