Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
JULES VERNEIn the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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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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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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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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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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