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 STOKERThese infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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