H. Rider Haggard Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
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We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.
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We white people think that we know everything.
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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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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
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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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Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
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A sharp spear needs no polish.
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Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.
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The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
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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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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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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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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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The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
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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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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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Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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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.