A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POEYears of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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 intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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As 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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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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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