Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
BRAM STOKERWe are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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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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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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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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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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Despair has its own calms.
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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