I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERHe means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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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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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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