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Edgar Allan Poe has 333 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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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…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself…
— Baruch Spinoza
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All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not…
— Roger Bacon
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No self is of itself alone
— Erwin Schrodinger
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No enterprise can exist for itself alone.
— Calvin Coolidge
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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art…
— Angela Carter
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Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
— Ouida
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
— Charles Darwin
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Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time,…
— Heinrich Heine
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One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative…
— Edward Hopper
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No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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