I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
JULES VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
JULES VERNEWhen 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.
JULES VERNEI wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
JULES VERNELiberty is worth paying for.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
JULES VERNEI say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
JULES VERNEI can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
JULES VERNEWe 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.
JULES VERNEAnything you can imagine you can make real.
JULES VERNEHowever, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
JULES VERNEBetter to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEThe 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.
JULES VERNEThe 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?
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNEThe chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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