Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Sarcasm Quotes, Misunderstood Quotes

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

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Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

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There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

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And all I loved, I loved alone.

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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

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Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

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

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Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

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Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

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