As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKERRemember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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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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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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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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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.
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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