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.
BRAM STOKERThere are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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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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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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