Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNESo 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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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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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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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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