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Jules Verne quotes: Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,
Jules Verne quotes: 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues,
Jules Verne quotes: Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human raceunhappily. Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race
unhappily.
Jules Verne quotes: You are going to visit the land of marvels. You are going to visit the land of marvels.
Jules Verne quotes: Hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man! Hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!
Jules Verne quotes: During the years following his capital was doubled, owing to the creation of a new commerce, which might be called The Coolie trade of the New World. During the years following his capital was doubled, owing to the creation of a new commerce, which might be called The Coolie trade of the New World.
Jules Verne quotes: The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress. The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.
Jules Verne quotes: It is only when you suffer that you really understand. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
Jules Verne quotes: With time and thought, one can do a good job. With time and thought, one can do a good job.
Jules Verne quotes: My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends. My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
Jules Verne quotes: In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless. In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
Jules Verne quotes: Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away.""Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105) Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away."
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105)
Jules Verne quotes: The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment. The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Jules Verne quotes: How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next! How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
Jules Verne quotes: A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
Jules Verne quotes: Look with all your eyes, look. Look with all your eyes, look.
Jules Verne quotes: I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success. I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
Jules Verne quotes: Oh! What stupids we were! cried Neb.That is precisely what I had the honor of telling you before! returned the sailor. Oh! What stupids we were! cried Neb.
That is precisely what I had the honor of telling you before! returned the sailor.
Jules Verne quotes: Anything a man can imagine, another can create Anything a man can imagine, another can create
Jules Verne quotes: Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned. Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.
Jules Verne quotes: Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne quotes: If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
Jules Verne quotes: Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
Jules Verne quotes: In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
Jules Verne quotes: The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise. The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
Jules Verne quotes: 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. 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.
Jules Verne quotes: A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
Jules Verne quotes: Liberty is worth paying for. Liberty is worth paying for.
Jules Verne quotes: If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference? If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference?
Jules Verne quotes: It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.
Jules Verne quotes: His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability. His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.
Jules Verne quotes: These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force? These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force?
Jules Verne quotes: It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men. It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.
Jules Verne quotes: -the future is but the present a little farther on. -the future is but the present a little farther on.
Jules Verne quotes: It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions. It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.
Jules Verne quotes: The devil!" exclaimed Ned. The devil!" exclaimed Ned.
Jules Verne quotes: But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories. But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.
Jules Verne quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want. Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
Jules Verne quotes: In two days there won't be a single leak, and our boat will have no more water in her than there is in the stomach of a drunkard. In two days there won't be a single leak, and our boat will have no more water in her than there is in the stomach of a drunkard.
Jules Verne quotes: You don't see, I dare say, Axel, but if you were to listen, you might hear. You don't see, I dare say, Axel, but if you were to listen, you might hear.
Jules Verne quotes: I thanked God for having led me through the labyrinth of darkness to the only point at which the voices of my companions could reach me. (p. 122) I thanked God for having led me through the labyrinth of darkness to the only point at which the voices of my companions could reach me. (p. 122)
Jules Verne quotes: that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same
Jules Verne quotes: Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
Jules Verne quotes: 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Jules Verne quotes: It is only when you suffer that you truly understand. It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.
Jules Verne quotes: He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, "reporting" among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome. He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, "reporting" among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome.
Jules Verne quotes: I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory. I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.
Jules Verne quotes: When one has taken root, one puts out branches. When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
Jules Verne quotes: I say, you do have a heart!""Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time. I say, you do have a heart!"
"Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.
Jules Verne quotes: Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
Jules Verne quotes: What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
Jules Verne quotes: I am the Colombus of this nether world!Dr. Leidenbrock I am the Colombus of this nether world!
Dr. Leidenbrock
Jules Verne quotes: Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik. Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.
Jules Verne quotes: I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me. I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
Jules Verne quotes: All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived. All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
Jules Verne quotes: Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest
Jules Verne quotes: Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country. Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country.
Jules Verne quotes: Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Jules Verne quotes: He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
Jules Verne quotes: Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance. Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
Jules Verne quotes: Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep."My dear uncle-" I began."Nor you either," he added. Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.
"My dear uncle-" I began.
"Nor you either," he added.
Jules Verne quotes: the coast, irregular the coast, irregular
Jules Verne quotes: You're never rich enough if you can be richer. You're never rich enough if you can be richer.
Jules Verne quotes: Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
Jules Verne quotes: Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men. Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.
Jules Verne quotes: Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray. Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
Jules Verne quotes: Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England! Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!
Jules Verne quotes: In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else. In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.
Jules Verne quotes: proportioned. While proportioned. While
Jules Verne quotes: Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality. Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
Jules Verne quotes: Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets. Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.
Jules Verne quotes: An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else. An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
Jules Verne quotes: [we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. [we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Jules Verne quotes: Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth. Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
Jules Verne quotes: With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Jules Verne quotes: I am induced to think," said Pencroft, "that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there. I am induced to think," said Pencroft, "that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there.
Jules Verne quotes: A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter. A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter.
Jules Verne quotes: 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 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
Jules Verne quotes: Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice. Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice.
Jules Verne quotes: From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up. From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up.
Jules Verne quotes: A minimum put to good use is enough for anything. A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
Jules Verne quotes: Where others have failed, I will not fail. Where others have failed, I will not fail.
Jules Verne quotes: Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?
Jules Verne quotes: As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question. As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.
Jules Verne quotes: His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk. His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.
Jules Verne quotes: The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali.
Jules Verne quotes: The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
Jules Verne quotes: And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin? And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?
Jules Verne quotes: I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel! I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!
Jules Verne quotes: You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense! You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!
Jules Verne quotes: The earth does not want new continents, but new men. The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
Jules Verne quotes: Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
Jules Verne quotes: When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received. When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
Jules Verne quotes: We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne quotes: I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life. I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
Jules Verne quotes: Why, you are a man of heart!""Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time. Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.
Jules Verne quotes: The earth does not need new continents, but new men. The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
Jules Verne quotes: what gamblers regret the most isn't the loss of their money so much as the loss of their insane hopes. But what gamblers regret the most isn't the loss of their money so much as the loss of their insane hopes. But
Jules Verne quotes: It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things. It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

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