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

Jules Verne

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Dreams Imagination Inspirational Man Myself Possible Reality Team Work
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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Culture Education Enjoyment Establishment Experience Friendship Learning Live Ourselves Peace Respect Travel World
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
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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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time

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