"In efforts to soar above our nature, we……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it."
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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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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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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to…
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure…
— Julian Assange
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Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can…
— Julian Assange
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
— Chinua Achebe
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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