The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
EDGAR ALLAN POEFrom childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved 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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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