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Category: H. Rider Haggard

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

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.

she-who-must-be-obeyed, women

H. Rider Haggard

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

ambition, endeavors, greed, humanity, ladder, learning, life, mankind, materialism, things-that-matter, want

H. Rider Haggard

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand–evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

immortality, living, living-on, sorrow, waiting

H. Rider Haggard

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

anything-is-possible, magic, magic-vs-nature, magic-vs-science, nature, power, science

H. Rider Haggard

Surely my lord will not hide his beautiful white legs!” exclaimed Infadoos regretfully. But Good persisted, and once only did the Kukuana people get the chance of seeing his beautiful legs again. Good is a very modest man. Henceforward they had to satisfy their aesthetic longings with his one whisker, his transparent eye, and his movable teeth.

funny, white-legs

H. Rider Haggard

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath–all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

action, cause-and-effect, chain-of-events, chance, change, choice, circumstance, crime, fate, free-will, good-and-evil, intention, long-term, opposites, result, results, time

H. Rider Haggard

Shot the man! Shed human blood! Hid in a pool!” ejaculated Mr. Dove, overcome. “Really, Rachel, you are a most trying daughter. Why should you go out before daybreak and do such things?

H. Rider Haggard

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

everything-is-meaningless, fallen-nations, futility, inevitability, knowledge, learning, man, mankind, materialism, nations, passing-of-time, time

H. Rider Haggard

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

lightening, passion

H. Rider Haggard

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!

belief, disagreement, dreams, faith, future, hopes, ignorance, illusions, imagination, mankind, religion, vain-hopes

H. Rider Haggard

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man

power, strength, weapon