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H. Rider Haggard has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or…
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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…
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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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Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been,…
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How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
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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,…
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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…
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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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Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that…
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The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on…
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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…
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
— James Drummond Burns
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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft…
— Robert Burns
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The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
— Lawrence Hargrave
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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…
— H. Rider Haggard
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Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence…
— Errol Flynn
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
— Robert Burns
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My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of…
— Alan G. Poindexter
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A blind gal told her lover she will marry him if she could c D world. 1 day some1 donated D eyes…
— ZhatsPrincess
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When sailing through life, an aft look is good as long as it is brief and the main focus of your gaze…
— Ash Sweeney
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