Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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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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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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