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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.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
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
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
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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Believe Cat Earth Fantasy Myself Spirit Walk
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
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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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Capability Imagination Man Oneself
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
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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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence

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