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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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• 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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• 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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• Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

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  Laughter, Heart, Weakness

  H. Rider Haggard (2001). “All Adventure: Cleopatra”, p.103, Essential Library

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• I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

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  Men, Littles, Superstitions

  H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lin Carter, Rudyard Kipling, Eando Binder (2014). “The Lost World MEGAPACK ®: 22 Modern and Classic Tales”, p.421, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

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  Doors, Events, Looks

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

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  Men, Awkward, Shy

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.9483, Delphi Classics

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• The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

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  Crush, Fate, Juggernaut

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1473, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.

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  Men, Routine, Lions

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power.

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  Believe, Son, Would Be

  H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.149, Modern Library

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• We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

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  Kings, Hate, Identity

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.2402, Delphi Classics

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• Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.

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  Men, Iron, Band

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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• Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

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  Memories, Passion, Hands

  H. Rider Haggard (2001). “All Adventure: She Who Must Be Obeyed”, p.143, Essential Library

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• Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

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  Art, Strong, Memories

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

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  Cynical, Moral Corruption, Boyhood

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• Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the longcenturies falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow drippingon a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful ofus, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable.

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  Love, Fall, Thinking

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.6785, 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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• 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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• The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.

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  Dark, Moon, White

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

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  Religious, Poor, Dies

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.10932, Delphi Classics

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