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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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
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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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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Science, 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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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