If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
EDGAR ALLAN POEExperience 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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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