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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.

Jules Verne

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
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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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
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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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
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
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
JULES VERNE

Creation Impossible Inspirational Motivational Reality
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
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
JULES VERNE

Oneself Poet Proverb
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
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.
JULES VERNE

Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing

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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