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Man is never perfect nor contented.

Jules Verne

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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Civilization Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
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
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Creation Imagination Inspirational Invention Myself Possible Reality
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

Man is never perfect nor contented.

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