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
JULES VERNEIt is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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