There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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