Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEThe 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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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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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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