An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
JULES VERNEPoets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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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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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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