"Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's…
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled…
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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come…
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When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy…
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