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

Jules Verne

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
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
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
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
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
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 may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
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
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
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence

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