The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
JULES VERNEMan 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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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What you do for money you do badly.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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