It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEPoets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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