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Quotations by author » Edgar Allan Poe
American short-story Writer, Editor, Poet and Critic, 1809-1849
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire
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The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability
Goodness
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true
DreamsHope
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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the play was the tragedy "man" and it's hero the conqueror worm
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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The Tell Tale Poe
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Genius
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Popularity
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell
HumanityReason
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm
Enthusiasm
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man
FidelityFriendshipLoveMen
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Dreams
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Dreams
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