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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.

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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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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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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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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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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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