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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Jules Verne

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
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
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
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
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
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
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
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
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
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
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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Believe Cat Earth Fantasy Myself Spirit Walk
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Dreams Imagination Inspirational Man Myself Possible Reality Team Work
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
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

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