A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKERShe 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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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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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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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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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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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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