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.
JULES VERNEPoets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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