Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, God Love Quotes

Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

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One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

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There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

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I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

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Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

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Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

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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.

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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore

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Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

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That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

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