Man is never perfect nor contented.
JULES VERNEWhile 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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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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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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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What you do for money you do badly.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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