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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.

Jules Verne

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
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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Believe Cat Earth Fantasy Myself Spirit Walk
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth Yourself
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
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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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
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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Believe Capability Constitution Employment Intense Light Togetherness Water
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
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
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World

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