Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKERWe are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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