Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
BRAM STOKERAh, 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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But 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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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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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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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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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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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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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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