A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKERBut we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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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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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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The Dead travel fast.
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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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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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