The 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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