H. Rider Haggard Quotes

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

H. Rider Haggard

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• I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

  

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• I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

  

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• Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

  

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• Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

  

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• I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.

  

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• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

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• And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

  

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

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Die
  • Rest
  • Religious