But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
JULES VERNEThe 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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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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