What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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