I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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