The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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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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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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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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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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