H. Rider Haggard Quotes

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• As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

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  Regret, Thinking, Habit

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

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  Sleep, Circles, Forever

  H. Rider Haggard (1999). “She”, p.102, Regnery Gateway

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• Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.

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  Elements, Ghost, Individual

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics

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• Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

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  Events, Lapses, Hours

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “She”, p.281, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

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  Stars, Moving, Self

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1688, Delphi Classics

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• Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

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  Men, Sea, Cities

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

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  Wise, Running, Stupid

  H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.146, Modern Library

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• Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

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  Men, Work Out, Salvation

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1122, Delphi Classics

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• Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

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  Thinking, Helplessness

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1064, Delphi Classics

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• Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

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  Sweet, Hate, Fall

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• There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

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  Magic, Way

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• Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

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  Long, Enough, Ends

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

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  Beautiful, Passion, Heaven

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1632, Delphi Classics

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• It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.

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  Heart, Journey, Men

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

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  Gentleman, Doe, Way

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

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  Ambition, Men, Acorns

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

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• The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

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  Passion, Law, People

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.115, 谷月社

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• Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

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  Imagination, Strange, Pigment

  H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.249, Modern Library

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• We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

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  Running, Fall, Winning

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1130, Delphi Classics

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• Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage of the hosts ere they departed northwards for Thebes. At nightfall they returned again and sat side by side at the marriage feast, and once more Tua swept her harp of ivory and gold, and sang the ancient song of him who dared much for love, and won the prize.

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  Love, Song, Queens

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Morning Star”, p.295, The Floating Press

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• Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

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  Adventure, World, May

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.72, 谷月社

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• A sharp spear needs no polish.

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  Needs, Polish, Spears

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• The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

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  Clock, Almighty, Strikes

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “King Solomon's Mine”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

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  Men, Evil, Ends

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1058, Delphi Classics

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• Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

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  Fighting, Blow, Buffalo

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain”, p.196, Sheba Blake Publishing

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