The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
JULES VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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