Quotes by H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Needs

Polish

Spears

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Adventure

May

World

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, ‘See, he is a wise man!’ Is it not so?

Running

Stupid

Wise

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without – that he himself must work out his own salvation.

Men

Salvation

Work Out

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

Memories

Might

Touching

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king’s beer, and be numbered amongst the king’s wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.

Beer

Girl

Kings

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

Habit

Regret

Thinking

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

Civilization

Savagery

Silver

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

Ends

Enough

Long

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Moving

Self

Stars

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Awkward

Band

Beautiful

Beer

Believe

Blow

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Buffalo

Circles

Cities

Civilization

Clock

Crowds

Crush

Cynical

Dark

Delight

Desire

Dies

Doe

Doors

Elements

Ends

Enough

Events

Evil

Faces

Fall

Fate

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Firsts

Forever

Forgotten

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Ghost

Girl

Giving

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Hands

Hate

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Heaven

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Quotes by H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, ‘See, he is a wise man!’ Is it not so?

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without – that he himself must work out his own salvation.

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king’s beer, and be numbered amongst the king’s wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

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