"The food that memory gives to eat is……" — H. Rider Haggard
"The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it."
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H. Rider Haggard
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37 Quotes by H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard has 37 quotes on this site.
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always…
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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the…
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The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
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