A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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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 rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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