The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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