Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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