False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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