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

Jules Verne

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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Impossible Inspirational Motivational
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
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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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
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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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Deep Fear Lightning Man Nature Philosophy Thunder
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Capability Imagination Man Oneself
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence

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