"How many good books suffer neglect through the……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!"
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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 Beginnings Quotes
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
— William Throsby Bridges
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
— A. S. Byatt
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I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs…
— Paula Abdul
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Good seasons start with good beginnings.
— Sparky Anderson
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
— Thomas Paine
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
— Aberjhani
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies…
— Louise Erdrich
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new…
— Amby Burfoot
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
— Laozi
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