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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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