That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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