The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
BRAM STOKERIt is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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It 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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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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