There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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?
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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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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So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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