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H. Rider Haggard

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

H. Rider Haggard

Work , Men , Salvation , Out

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" 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

Thinking , Regret

" That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. "

H. Rider Haggard

Sleep , Forever

" Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours. "

H. Rider Haggard

Events , Hours

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

H. Rider Haggard

stars , Self , Moving

" Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. "

H. Rider Haggard

Thinking

" 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. "

H. Rider Haggard

Men , Sea , Cities

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

H. Rider Haggard

Magic , Way

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

H. Rider Haggard

Long , Ends , Enough

" 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

Way , Doe , Gentleman

" Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever. "

H. Rider Haggard

Elements , Ghost , Individual

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

H. Rider Haggard

Beautiful , Passion , Heaven

" 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? "

H. Rider Haggard

Running , Stupid , Wise

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