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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Jules Verne

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
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
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.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
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
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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Culture Education Enjoyment Establishment Experience Friendship Learning Live Ourselves Peace Respect Travel World
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Beyond Creation Destruction Man Nature Power
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
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
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Civilization Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
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
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
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
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
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
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Eat End Hungry People Philosophy
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
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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