It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEWell, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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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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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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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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