Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
JULES VERNEWe now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
More Jules Verne Quotes
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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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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