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

Jules Verne

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
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
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
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
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
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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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Beyond Creation Destruction Man Nature Power
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching

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