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

Jules Verne

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
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
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 the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
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 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
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
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Deep Fear Lightning Man Nature Philosophy Thunder

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