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H G Wells Inspirational Quotes (185)

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But I was too restless to watch long I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
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The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
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Strength is the outcome of need.
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
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Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?
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Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.
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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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If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
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The future is the shape of things to come.
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The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.
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