A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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