The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEI can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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