"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
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Edgar Allan Poe
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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
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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,…
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
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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…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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More Avenger Quotes
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Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
— Lord Byron
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I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin.…
— John Calvin
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Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You…
— Mary Browne
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Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie…
— Robert Fisk
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
— Alexander Pope
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THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life…
— Paulo Coelho
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Time is the best avenger.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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