Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
JULES VERNEWhen 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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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