"Thinking can only serve to measure out the……" — H. Rider Haggard
"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."
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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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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the…
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More Helplessness Quotes
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There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia…
— Michael Ian Black
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech,…
— Hannah More
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
— Ole Hallesby
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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with…
— Ole Hallesby
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Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer.
— Ole Hallesby
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You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and…
— Susan Jeffers
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When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion,…
— Blaise Pascal
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Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some,…
— Susan Jeffers
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And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what…
— Dianne Feinstein
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If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the…
— Unknown Author
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To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very…
— Ole Hallesby
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