"For my own part, I have never had……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it."
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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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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination…
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to…
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency…
— Bob Dole
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Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
— Joseph Parker
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a…
— Ulrich Beck
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their…
— James Madison
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
— Ernst Mayr
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