Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Doubt Quotes, May Quotes

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

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I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

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The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

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This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

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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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In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

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You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken

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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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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore - For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.

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