Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
JULES VERNEWhatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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