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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.

Jules Verne

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
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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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
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
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
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
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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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value
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
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
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
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
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
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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Civilization Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon

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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