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 VERNEThere 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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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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 sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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