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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Jules Verne

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
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
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
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
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
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
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
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
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

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