H. Rider Haggard Quotes
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...
H. Rider Haggard
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fallen nations, futility, inevitability, knowledge, learning, man, mankind, materialism, nations, passing of time
About Author
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (; 22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature and including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories, continue to be popular and influential.
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!
H. Rider Haggard
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disagreement, dreams, faith, future, hopes, ignorance, illusions, imagination, mankind, religion
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...
H. Rider Haggard
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cause and effect, chain of events, chance, change, choice, circumstance, crime, fate, free will, good and evil