Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSThere’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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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 social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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 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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