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?
JULES VERNEBetter to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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