Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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