I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEither 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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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