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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

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  Sleep, Forever, Forgotten

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

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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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• There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.

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  Mind, Faces, Firsts

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1934, Delphi Classics

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• It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

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  Wise, Neglect, Knows

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.169, 谷月社

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• The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

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  Memories, Giving, Teeth

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1119, Delphi Classics

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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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• As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.

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  Girl, Kings, Beer

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.7165, Delphi Classics

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• My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

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  Desire, Quests, Realms

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.6607, Delphi Classics

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• A sharp spear needs no polish.

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  Needs, Polish, Spears

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