It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
JULES VERNEWhat pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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?
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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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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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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