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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. — H. Rider Haggard

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. — H. Rider Haggard

The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires. — H. Rider Haggard

A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish. — H. Rider Haggard

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. — H. Rider Haggard

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) — H. Rider Haggard

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

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

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late — H. Rider Haggard

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. — H. Rider Haggard

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them. — H. Rider Haggard

Vengeance is an arrow that in falling oft pierces him who shot it — H. Rider Haggard

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

Love her who is present, for be sure she who is absent is false to thee; — H. Rider Haggard

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it. — H. Rider Haggard

We white people think that we know everything. — H. Rider Haggard

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 — H. Rider Haggard

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

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals. — H. Rider Haggard

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. — H. Rider Haggard

The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned it. — H. Rider Haggard

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. — H. Rider Haggard

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

I have noted that those who desire to do the most good often work the greatest harm. — H. Rider Haggard

For women bring trouble as surely as night follows day ... — H. Rider Haggard

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do. — H. Rider Haggard

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature. — H. Rider Haggard

For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core. — H. Rider Haggard

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo. — H. Rider Haggard

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last. — H. Rider Haggard

Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds. — H. Rider Haggard

Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker. — H. Rider Haggard

A sharp spear needs no polish. — H. Rider Haggard

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. — H. Rider Haggard

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! — H. Rider Haggard

Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one. — H. Rider Haggard

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. — H. Rider Haggard

Now, I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart. — H. Rider Haggard

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 bite it. — H. Rider Haggard

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski

Although I know no actual precedent for it, in the case of a particularly powerful Double, such as was given in this romance to Queen — H. Rider Haggard

Women's eyes are always bright, whatever the colour, — H. Rider Haggard

What I seek I Find,what I find I keep. — H. Rider Haggard

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. — H. Rider Haggard

Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely — H. Rider Haggard

I fancy I only got a rap on the head, which knocked me stupid. — H. Rider Haggard