Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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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 earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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