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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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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
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Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own…
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations…
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
— H. Rider Haggard
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made…
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase…
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