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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the…
— John Flavel
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Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.
— Holbrook Jackson
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Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other…
— Sigmund Freud
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what…
— Lord Dunsany
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
— Demosthenes
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The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Those who are readiest to trust GOD without evidence other than HIS word; always receive the greatest number of visible evidences of…
— Pacifiersucker
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