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Wells Quotes - Page 50

Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.78

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.168, Harriet Beecher Stowe

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1963). “Selected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.

"Grimes Gets The Ladylike Treatment For 'T'". www.mtv.com. October 19, 2012.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

"Fool’s Talk - The Kinship of Wit and Wisdom" by Kevin Belmonte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2015.

To pray well one must pray much.

Georgia Elma Harkness (1948). “Prayer and the common life”

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, MIT Press

Things well fitted abide.

George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.383

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.309, 谷月社

Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.

George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.43

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.149, Penguin