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Edgar Allan Poe Inspirational Quotes (232)

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal
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How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.
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The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
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The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee
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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.
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