But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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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.
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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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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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 want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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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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