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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Jules Verne

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth Yourself
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Best Friendship Ourselves Sleep Wait
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
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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Believe Capability Constitution Employment Intense Light Togetherness Water
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
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
I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
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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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself

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