If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
BRAM STOKERShe was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Despair has its own calms.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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