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.
BRAM STOKERIt is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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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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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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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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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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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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