The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”
“It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”
“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
“What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?”
“All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.”
“In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.”
“What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!”
“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.”
“He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.”
“Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.”
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