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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
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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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
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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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
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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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth

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