Edgar Allan Poe Quotations
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile
imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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.
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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