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Edgar Allan Poe Quote - I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Die Floor Ghost Remember Separate
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Dreams Mad Sure
There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Deep Emotion Heart Touch
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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