In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
JULES VERNEIt seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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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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.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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