We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKERThese 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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The blood is the life!
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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