I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAh, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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 death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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