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

Jules Verne

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Dreams Imagination Inspirational Man Myself Possible Reality Team Work
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.
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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
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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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water

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