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 VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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