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?
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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