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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.

Jules Verne

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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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
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
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
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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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
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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Believe Cat Earth Fantasy Myself Spirit Walk
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

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