An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
JULES VERNEAs 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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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