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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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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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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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