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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.

Jules Verne

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
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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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
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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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Chance Last Lost Moments Philosophy Present
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time

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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