Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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