"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm" — Edgar Allan Poe
"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm"
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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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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can…
— Joseph Addison
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
— Herophilos
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech,…
— Hannah More
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education…
— A C Dixon
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the…
— Joan Miro
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
— Heinrich Heine
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible…
— George Washington
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