What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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 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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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