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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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 scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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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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