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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
— Albert Schweitzer
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The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
— William Arthur Ward
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Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
— Elizabeth Kim
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm…
— David Plotz
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
— Luc de Clapiers
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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube…
— Cassandra Clare
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To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some…
— Marcel Proust
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