Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
JULES VERNEBut 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 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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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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