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.
JULES VERNEIt 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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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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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So 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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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