A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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 scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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