It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
BRAM STOKERWe learn from failure, not from success!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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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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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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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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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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