Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Lying Quotes, Law Quotes

...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

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By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

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You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

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

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

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

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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

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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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