He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Above 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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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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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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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