The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Experience 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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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