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> [It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/it-is-not-wise-to-neglect-the-present-for-the-future-for-who-knows/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

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## More by H. Rider Haggard

> [Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/men-and-women-empires-and-cities-thrones-principalities-and-powers/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [“The moon grows black before your eyes; soon there will be darkness—ay, darkness in the hour of the full moon. Ye have asked for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/the-moon-grows-black-before-your-eyes-soon-there-will-be-darkness-ay/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [“Fourth reason and last: Because I am going to tell the strangest story that I remember. It may seem a queer thing to say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/fourth-reason-and-last-because-i-am-going-to-tell-the-strangest-story/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/there-is-no-loneliness-like-the-loneliness-of-crowds-especially-to/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/mistrust-all-men-and-slay-him-whom-thou-mistrustest-overmuch-and-as/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/as-for-the-girl-since-she-is-well-favoured-she-shall-brew-the-king-s/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/it-is-awkward-to-listen-to-oneself-being-praised-and-i-was-always-a/)

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> [“The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/the-garden-of-eden-no-doubt-looked-fair-before-man-was-but-i-always/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [“Very good; then here we have it—'4 June, total eclipse of the moon commences at 8.15 Greenwich time, visible in Teneriffe—South Africa, &c.' There's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/very-good-then-here-we-have-it-4-june-total-eclipse-of-the-moon/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/adventurer-he-that-goes-to-meet-whatever-may-come-well-that-is-what/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [“...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/for-like-a-rugged-tree-you-are-hard-and-sound-at-the-core/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [“Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/listen-what-is-life-it-is-a-feather-it-is-the-seed-of-the-grass-blown/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/there-are-things-and-there-are-faces-which-when-felt-or-seen-for-the/)

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> [“Out of the vast main aisle there opened here and there smaller caves, exactly, Sir Henry said, as chapels open out of great cathedrals.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/out-of-the-vast-main-aisle-there-opened-here-and-there-smaller-caves/)

[H. Rider Haggard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-rider-haggard/)

> [And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-rider-haggard/and-now-let-us-love-and-take-that-which-is-given-us-and-be-happy-for/)

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