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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.

Bram Stoker

It 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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Matter Principles Resilience
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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Blood Feels Men Women
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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Explain Fault Nothing Say Science
I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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Alone Go Into Let Unknown
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Begun Century Just Over Revenge Side Spread Time
I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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Been Long Master None Other So Still
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Heart Help Man No One Trouble Woman
We learn from failure, not from success!
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Inspirational Learning Wisdom
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Mean Men Patience
But 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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Believe Efforts Enlightenment Love Wise
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Antidote Mood Terror
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Both Even Fall Harm Heart Horror Many Much She So Suffer Walk
The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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Angel Dark Important Nothing Restore Seem Sufficient Worth
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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Always Come Door Keep Laughter Like Person Suitability
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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Century Deceiving Modernity Power
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Achieve Create Evoke Goes Life Nothing Spark

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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