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Before Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
- If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity…
- Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
- ...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the…
- [E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly…
- Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of…
- And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to…
- I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
- Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was…
- I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there…
- The painter stood entranced before the work which he hadwrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is indeed Life itself!…
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood