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 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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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