Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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