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• We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

  Jules Verne

  Ambition, World, Humans

  Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.199, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

  Jules Verne

  Reality, Imagination, Add

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Heart, Men, Desire

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.2849, Delphi Classics

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• The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Doe, Needs

  Jules Verne (2013). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: (Annotated)(Unabridged)”, p.133, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Journey, Sea, Embodiment

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.45, Jules Verne

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• All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

  Jules Verne

  Return, Action

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.357, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Succeed, Energetic

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.109, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

  Jules Verne

  Want, New Things, Ifs

  Jules Verne (1999). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.42, Oxford Paperbacks

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• With time and thought, one can do a good job.

  Jules Verne

  Jobs, Good Job, Can Do

  Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.217, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

  Jules Verne

  May, Lasts, Chance

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.67, Jules Verne

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Heart, Long, Soul

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.181, Jules Verne

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• But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Men, Mind

  Jules Verne (2013). “The Collected Works Of Jules Verne”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Curiosity, Pay, Exploration

  Jules Verne (1993). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Completely Restored and Annotated Ed.”, Naval Inst Pr

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• What darkness to you is light to me

  Jules Verne

  Light, Darkness

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• Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

  Jules Verne

  Masters, Teach

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.98, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Civilization, Perfection, Humanity

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• Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Action, Realizing

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• Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

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  Law, Civilization, Force

  Jules Verne (2013). “The Collected Works Of Jules Verne”, p.1275, Simon and Schuster

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• Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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  Way, Fortune, Ready

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.52, Jules Verne

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• Man is never perfect nor contented.

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  Men, Perfect

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.2586, Delphi Classics

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• I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

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  Persevere, Without Hope, Hope Of Success

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.7, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

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  Character, Past, Mind

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.4355, Delphi Classics

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• Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

  Jules Verne

  Eccentric

  Jules Verne (1874). “A Floating City, and, the Blockade Runners”, p.47

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• I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

  Jules Verne

  Spring, Glasses, Water

  Jules Verne (2013). “Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island”, p.509, Lulu Press, Inc

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• However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

  Jules Verne

  People, Passing Away, Hunger

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.36, Jules Verne

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