Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEBefore all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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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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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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 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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