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.
BRAM STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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The Dead travel fast.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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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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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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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 is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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These 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.
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