Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNEWhile there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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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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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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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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So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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