"We gave him a hearty welcome, for there……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.."
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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 Contemptible Quotes
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one of 111 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its…
— Mary Astell
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a…
— Edmund Burke
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,…
— Albert Einstein
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
— David Hume
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
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An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old.…
— Francis Bacon
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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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