A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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