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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

Jules Verne

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
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Deep Fear Lightning Man Nature Philosophy Thunder
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
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
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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
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
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
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Best Friendship Ourselves Sleep Wait

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