She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
BRAM STOKERIt 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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The Dead travel fast.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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