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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Jules Verne

I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
JULES VERNE

Heart Myself Time
So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
JULES VERNE

Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
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
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.
JULES VERNE

Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
JULES VERNE

Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
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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Believe Capability Constitution Employment Intense Light Togetherness Water
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Best Friendship Ourselves Sleep Wait
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Beyond Creation Destruction Man Nature Power
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth Yourself
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
JULES VERNE

Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNE

Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude

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