"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince." — Edgar Allan Poe
"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."
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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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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
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We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children…
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The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they…
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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to…
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
— Josh Billings
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a…
— Rita Mae Brown
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these…
— Donald Cargill
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
— Muhammad Ali
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know,…
— Eric Clapton
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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
— John Henrik Clarke
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience…
— Marina Abramovic
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