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H. Rider Haggard was a British writer known for his adventure novels. His work 'She' is considered a pioneer of early science fiction, having a profound impact on literature and cinema.

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Famous H. Rider Haggard Quotes

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

Ifs Long Ends Enough

Book:King Solomon's Mines

Source: King Solomon's Mines

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

Ifs Men Salvation Work Out

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

“It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.”

Ifs Men Heart May Hands Earth Order Loses Journey Ready Mountain Crosses Desert Climbs Providence Counting

Book:Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines

Source: Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines

“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?”

Ifs Men Littles Doe Hands Running Water Wise Generations Stupid Fool Fingers Acquire Wet Dew Little Knowledge

Book:She: A History of Adventure

Source: She: A History of Adventure

“So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power.”

Ifs Believe Wells Littles Would Be Care Spirit I Believe Son Messiah

Book:She: A History of Adventure

Source: She: A History of Adventure

“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.”

Ifs Wells Facts Grows Known Moral Periods Argument Corruption Saved Cynical Well Known Hardened Timely Boyhood Moral Corruption

Author: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.”

Ifs Way Doe Wealth Sells Gentleman

Book:King Solomon's Mines

Source: King Solomon's Mines

About the Author

Born: June 22, 1856
Died: May 14, 1925
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 63

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Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)Related source material

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