All Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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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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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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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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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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