In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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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 would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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