With time and thought, one can do a good job.
JULES VERNEWith time and thought, one can do a good job.
JULES VERNESo 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.
JULES VERNEThe 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?
JULES VERNEIn presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
JULES VERNEOn 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
JULES VERNEAn energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
JULES VERNEWe now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEOn the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
JULES VERNEAnd whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
JULES VERNEAnything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNEWe are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
JULES VERNEBut to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
JULES VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
JULES VERNEWhy lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNEWhat use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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