False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBelieve nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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