The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
I never blame anyone, said Kemp. It's quite out of fashion.
اذا ذهب العقل والقوة فان الامتنان و الحب الرقيقبين الانسان و الانسان سبيقيان فى قلب الانسان
Our true nationality is mankind.
The ocean rose up around me, hiding that low, dark patch from my eyes. The daylight, the trailing glory of the sun, went streaming out of the sky, was drawn aside like some luminous curtain, and at la...
For after the Battle comes quiet.
Why not?' said the Time Traveller.
The present writer is a prophet by use and wont. He is more interested in to-morrow than he is in to-day, and the past is just material for future guessing. Think of the men who have walked here! said...
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
The whole world, he said, is going Radical again. Fundamentally. In religion. In politics. In law. The Common Man has been trying to get his Radicalism said and done plainly and clearly for a hundred...
[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,
The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And
Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fr...
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and...
That afternoon, with a sense of infinite relief, Pollock watched the flat swampy foreshore of Sulyma grow small in the distance. The gap in the long line of white surge became narrower and narrower. I...
And through it all, this destiny was before me, he said; this vast inheritance of which I did not dream.
It’s a beast of a country, said the Voice. And pigs for people.
There’s some ex-traordinary things in books, said the mariner.
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
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