A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI 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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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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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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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