Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSThe past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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 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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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