The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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