Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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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 nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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