A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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