If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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