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.
BRAM STOKERListen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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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.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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