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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Jules Verne

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.
JULES VERNE

Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
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
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
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Himself Identity Possible
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
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
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
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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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Chance Last Lost Moments Philosophy Present
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
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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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night

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