Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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