Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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