“Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Ah! if man would but see that hope is from within and not from without--that he himself must work out his own… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“It was a wonderful thing to think for how many thousands of years the dead orb above and the dead city below… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“money is a living moving force; leave it still, and it accumulates; expend it, and it gratifies every wish; save it, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“I was born a gentleman, though I have been nothing but a poor travelling trader and hunter all my life. Whether I… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Life is not worth the trouble of life, except when one in love.” — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Behold now, let the Dead and Living meet! Across the gulf of Time they still are one. Time hath no power against… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“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… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Fourth reason and last: Because I am going to tell the strangest story that I remember. It may seem a queer thing to say,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
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… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“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… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another... — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
