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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Jules Verne

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
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
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
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
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.
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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
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
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
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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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
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

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