There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA wise man hears one word and understands two.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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