H Rider Haggard She Quotes

#1. Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble.

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#2. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and overweight our feeble reason till it fell, and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.

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#3. am that Messenger whom men from the beginning have called Kepher," he said. "I am the Dweller in the wilderness whom your fathers knew, and your sons shall know. I am he who seeks for charity and pays it back in

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#4. 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.

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#5. For women bring trouble as surely as night follows day ...

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#6. Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

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#7. A sharp spear needs no polish.

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#8. Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

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#9. The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent superstition of man, but because it so often is terrible. He who would tamper with the vast and secret forces that animate the world may well fall a victim to them.

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#10. A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish.

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#11. There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

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#12. For surely the food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to chew it. (Ayesha)

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#13. Vengeance is an arrow that in falling oft pierces him who shot it

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#14. Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds.

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#15. Then there came a vision to me, a vision that was sent in answer to my prayer, or, perchance, it was a madness born of my sorrows.

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#16. And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

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#17. Shall a man
grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on
the water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with my
generation, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten.

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#18. Love her who is present, for be sure she who is absent is false to thee;

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#19. Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

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#20. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

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#21. Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one.

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#22. When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please.

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#23. It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

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#24. The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

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#25. Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

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#26. It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

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#27. Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

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#28. When we love most, and love happily, then we are at our topmost bent, and soar further above the earth than anything else can carry us.

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#29. We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

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#30. 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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#31. Thus the husband is buried at Memphis and the wife in Koptos, yet the Ka of the wife goes to live in her husband's tomb

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#32. What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

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#33. How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity

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#34. Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker.

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#35. Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

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#36. Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely

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