And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKERAbove 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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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The blood is the life!
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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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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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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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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