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
JULES VERNEThe 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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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