Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.G. WellsTag: morality jealousy definitions disapproval
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They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
H.G. WellsWe can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.
H.G. WellsTag: social-progress
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
H.G. WellsTag: first-sentence
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H.G. WellsTag: attributed-no-source writing
Night, the mother of fear and mystery,
was coming upon me.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H.G. WellsTag: perseverance failure tenacity
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
H.G. WellsTag: civilization
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
H.G. WellsTag: first-sentence opening-lines first-lines
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. WellsTag: education history catastrophe
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