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.
JULES VERNEThe 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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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