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?
JULES VERNEPoets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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