Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKERDespair has its own calms.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Despair has its own calms.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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 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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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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I 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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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