The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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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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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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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