A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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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.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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