A scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEThe chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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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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What you do for money you do badly.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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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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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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