A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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