Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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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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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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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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