No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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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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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