If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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