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. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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