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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
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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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Eat End Hungry People Philosophy
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
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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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Dreams Imagination Inspirational Man Myself Possible Reality Team Work
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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand

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