My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
BRAM STOKERBut 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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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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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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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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