"Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not……" — H. Rider Haggard
"Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever."
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37 Quotes by H. Rider Haggard
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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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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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The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
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