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I have great faith in fools My friends call it self-confidence. (Edgar Allan Poe)
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. View quote
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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams! View quote
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But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. View quote
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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly. View quote
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. View quote
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. View quote
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. View quote
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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man. View quote
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. View quote
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. View quote
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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore. View quote
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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover. View quote
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. View quote
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. View quote
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! View quote
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. View quote
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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. View quote
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. View quote
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Sound loves to revel in a summer night. (Edgar Allan Poe)
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. View quote
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Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells. View quote
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THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. 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. View quote
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Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. View quote
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