"Security puts a premium on feebleness." — H.G. Wells
"Security puts a premium on feebleness."
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H.G. Wells
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294 Quotes by H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells has 294 quotes on this site.
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher…
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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in…
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and…
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an…
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his…
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy…
— Alfred de Vigny
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This…
— Laozi
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and…
— Alexander Herzen
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives…
— Samuel Johnson
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I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor…
— Thomas Addison
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The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions…
— Walt Whitman
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...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and…
— George MacDonald
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