"Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose……" — Jules Verne
"Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!"
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151 Quotes by Jules Verne
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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 Boughs Quotes
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
— Unknown Author
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a…
— Francis Bacon
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State…
— Jonathan Swift
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Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak…
— Edwin Markham
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
— William C. Bryant
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
— Edmund Waller
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping…
— William Shakespeare
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with…
— Wallace Stevens
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I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great…
— Diego Rivera
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Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
— Andrew Marvell
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