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 POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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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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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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