Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
JULES VERNEScience, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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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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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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