Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
BRAM STOKERIt 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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But 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.
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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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The Dead travel fast.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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