While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H. G. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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