False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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 past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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 am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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 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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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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