What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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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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