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?
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 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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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