Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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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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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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