It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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