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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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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file…
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols…
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian…
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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
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I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty…
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O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not…
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The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never…
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one…
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