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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

What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
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
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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Creation Imagination Inspirational Invention Myself Possible Reality
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth

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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