It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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