That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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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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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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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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