Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEHappiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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 dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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