All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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 death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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