Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POEScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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