Impress Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

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“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common…

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”

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“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

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“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular…

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“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

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“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black…

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The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only…

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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of…

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I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style.

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In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because…

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