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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

Jules Verne

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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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Beyond Creation Destruction Man Nature Power
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
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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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Best Friendship Ourselves Sleep Wait
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace

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