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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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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been…
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Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into…
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The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
— Albert Pike
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Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the…
— Baldassare Castiglione
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy.…
— C.S. Lewis
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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our…
— Mark Twain
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