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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells
Jealousy, Witty, Humorous
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

H. G. Wells
Book, Writing, Trying

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

H. G. Wells
Two, Choices, One Tree Hill Love

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

H. G. Wells
Enough, Achieve, Ends

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

H. G. Wells
Teaching, Islamic, Order

If the world does not please you, you can change it.

H. G. Wells
Doe, World, Please
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3162, Delphi Classics

If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells
Peace, War, Remembrance
H. G. Wells (2016). “You Can't Be Too Careful”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells
Wise, Sorry, War

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

H. G. Wells
Doe, Overwhelmed, Contemplating

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?

H. G. Wells
Dream, Mad, Gone
H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.2586, e-artnow

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

H. G. Wells
Purpose, Done, Want
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3015, Delphi Classics

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

H. G. Wells
World, Sanity, Lost
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.72, 谷月社

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

H. G. Wells
Book, Reading, Ideas

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

H. G. Wells
Stronger, Overcoming, Mold

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

H. G. Wells
War, Eggs, Hens
H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.308, Xist Publishing

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

H. G. Wells
Errors, Race, Evil

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

H. G. Wells
Educational, Teaching, Men

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

H. G. Wells
Morning, Common Sense, Waiting
H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.10, Xist Publishing

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

H. G. Wells
Teacher, Writing, Unique

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells
Education, Appreciation, Witty
Outline of History (1920) vol. 2, ch. 41, pt. 4

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

H. G. Wells
Skills, Creative, World
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16126, Delphi Classics

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

H. G. Wells
Honesty, Honest, Being Honest
H. G. Wells (2016). “A Year of Prophesying”, p.60, Read Books Ltd

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

H. G. Wells
Men, Ends, Found
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through". Volume 2,

Strength is the outcome of need.

H. G. Wells
Strength, Needs, Outcomes
H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.21, Sparklesoup LLC

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.

H. G. Wells
Suffering, Purpose, Revolution

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