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Edgar Allan Poe Quote - 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.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Convince One Liner Seek
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Expectation Happiness Life Man
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Bad Eternal Gone Goodness Rest Worst
All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Deep Dreams Inspirational See
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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General Nature Particular Rich Truth
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Cognizant Dreams Escape Night
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Advice Believe Hear See Truth
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Beauty Development Kind Sensitive Soul Supreme Tears Variable
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Except Heart Insane Inspirational Occasion Touch
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Force Heath Humor Injure Man Mystery Thinking
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Demon Fight Frame Insane Instant Myself Original Posses Soul Violence
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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Always Arise Experience Irrelevant Perhaps Philosophy True
Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Growth Imperfection Love Music Stronger
A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Candle Reading
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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Mathematics Poet Reason
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Explore Heart Moments Mystery

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