“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.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: faith
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“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: poetry
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“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: death
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“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: hope
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“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: nature
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“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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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.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: friendship
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“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: experience
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Category: dreams
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