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.
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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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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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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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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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