I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
BRAM STOKERWhether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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 of great things by little experiences.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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