In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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