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

Quote by H. Rider Haggard

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

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Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

The book is a comprehensive compilation of H. Rider Haggard's writings, featuring his most famous works such as 'King Solomon's Mines' and 'She.' Each story is accompanied by illustrations that bring the adventurous spirit of Haggard's writing to life. more

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H. Rider Haggard

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. more

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“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

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

Author: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.”

Knows Made Done Hands Age Passion Evil Memories Sorrow Redemption Acquaintance Leading Me

Book:All Adventure: She Who Must Be Obeyed

Source: All Adventure: She Who Must Be Obeyed

“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.”

Body Running Fall Winning Failing Mouths Starving Babe

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

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

“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?”

Knows Men Heart Ends Earth Night Hate Fall Evil Heaven Sweet Circumstances Men And Women Blind Blow Strikes Bitter Good And Evil Thread Love And Hate Prompts Airy Evil Love

Author:H. Rider Haggard

“The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.”

Thinking Humans Race Corporate Human Race Oblivion Logos Shrouds

Book:Kingdom Come

Source: Kingdom Come

“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

“And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.”

“The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.”

Author:John Wooden