The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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