Inseperable Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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• The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
• In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
• ... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
• A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
• As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…
• Grammar is the analysis of language.
• It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…
• It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
• The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…
• Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

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