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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Jules Verne

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
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 never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Beyond Creation Destruction Man Nature Power
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory
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
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth Yourself

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