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?
JULES VERNEHowever, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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