The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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