I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
BRAM STOKERI do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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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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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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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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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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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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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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