Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNEIn presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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