I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
BRAM STOKERDo 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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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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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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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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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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