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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Jules Verne

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
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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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
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
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Beyond Creation Destruction Man Nature Power
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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Believe Cat Earth Fantasy Myself Spirit Walk
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
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
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
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

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