It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEScent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
More Jules Verne Quotes
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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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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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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