The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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