It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
BRAM STOKERBut we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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 sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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