Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
BRAM STOKERIt is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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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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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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