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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.

Jules Verne

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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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
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
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
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
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
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness

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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