"I was cautious in what I said before……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not."
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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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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by…
— Paul of the Cross
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Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
— Florence Nightingale
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People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body,…
— Florence Nightingale
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
— Emanuel Lasker
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Without error there can be no brilliancy
— Emanuel Lasker
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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and…
— Ansel Adams
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as…
— Pope Leo X
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts…
— Walter Pater
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Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each…
— David Hume
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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its…
— Confucius
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How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy…
— Abraham Kuyper
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