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 VERNEAnything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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