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.
BRAM STOKERA wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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.
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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 am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Despair has its own calms.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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