[ Famous Quotes ] Classic Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) American Writer

Classic Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) American Writer

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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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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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Hugszzz,ELLY..Elisi Eli

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