He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERYou cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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 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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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Despair has its own calms.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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