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.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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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