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" Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! "
Young
You
Travel
" A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. "
Worth
Man
Mankind
" An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. "
Will
Where
Succeed
" 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. "
Heart
Long
Will
" A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. "
He
About
True
" Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. "
Necessity
Before
Best
" Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. "
Rich
You
Understood
" Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. "
Civilization
Law
Necessity
" Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? "
Know
Existence
Child
" Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator? "
Movement
Understand
Soul
" Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament. "
Men
Class
Higher
" Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. "
Land
Miles
Great
" Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? "
Humanity
Great
Art
" Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. "
Eccentric
English
Possible
" Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. "
Shoulder
Back
Better
" Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. "
Only
Who
Take
" He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. "
May
Enemy
He
" However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. "
Life
Pride
Remember
" How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! "
Thinking
Because
Gone
" I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. "
Believe
Walk
Pet
" If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. "
Planets
Created
Existence
" I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye. "
God
Believe
Everything
" Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! "
Man
Rich
Society
" In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. "
Machines
Will
Them
" In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. "
Powerless
Nature
Grand
" In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! "
Moon
Day
Stars
" 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. "
Project
Cost
Working
" I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. "
Serious
Moon
Earth
" I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. "
You
Thoughts
Thought
" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "
Heart
Woman
Unfathomable
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