"Imagine a society in which there were neither……" — Jules Verne
"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!"
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Jules Verne
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151 Quotes by Jules Verne
Jules Verne has 151 quotes on this site.
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand…
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by…
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No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is…
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons…
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after…
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for…
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers…
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature…
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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More Afflictions Quotes
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
— John Climacus
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within…
— Joseph Addison
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The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in…
— Brother Lawrence
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There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain,…
— John Bunyan
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Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid…
— John Flavel
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The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
— John Flavel
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.…
— Richard Sibbes
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The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
— Richard Sibbes
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Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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