"We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments……" — H. Rider Haggard
"We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights."
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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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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
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