"There are things and there are faces which,……" — 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 image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed."
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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 food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of…
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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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The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
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More Faces Quotes
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
— J. J. Abrams
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
— Lance Armstrong
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's…
— Neil Armstrong
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
— Arthur Ashe
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with…
— Margaret Atwood
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
— Diane Ackerman
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