False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAs 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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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