The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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?
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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