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" That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. "
Edgar Allan Poe
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" We loved with a love that was more than love. "
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" In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. "
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" The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? "
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" I have no faith in human perfectability. 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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" Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. "
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" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "
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" I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. "
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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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" It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. "
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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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" The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "
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" All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. "
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" Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. "
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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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" 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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" A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. "
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" In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. "
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Purpose
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" I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. "
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" They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. "
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" Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. "
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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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Genius
True
" Stupidity is a talent for misconception. "
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" There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. "
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" I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. "
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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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" The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. "
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" Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. "
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" The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. "
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" I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. "
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