That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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