I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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