If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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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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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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