"As an individual, I myself feel impelled to……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apartand independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God."
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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
— Joseph Addison
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…
— George Washington
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
— Thomas Brooks
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we…
— Richard Sibbes
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What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk…
— John Bunyan
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the…
— Lydia M. Child
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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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