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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. "

" Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting! "

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" It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good. "

" Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. "

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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. "

" We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. "

" I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. "

" It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. "

" Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! "

" In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. "

" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "

" In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. "

" The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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? "

" Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. "

" 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. "

" The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. "

" When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey. "

" If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. "

" To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe. "

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

" The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. "

" The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. "

" 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. "

" It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. "

" A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. "

" 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! "