All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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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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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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