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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

Topics: Bent Come Content Dreams Hope Made Making Man New Nine Ninety Those True Who World

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Any Imagination Led Mob Nose Quietly Time

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

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Beauty Development Excites Invariably Kind Sensitive Soul Supreme Tears Whatever

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Accurate Art Artist Call Define However Imitation Man Mere Name Nature Perceive Reproduction Sacred Senses Should Soul Term Through Veil Very Were

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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Above Am Atrocity Between Cause Disaster Effect Establish Seeking Sequence Weakness I Am

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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

Topics: Always Arises Experience Irrelevant Larger Perhaps Philosophy Portion Seemingly Show Shown True Truth Vast Will

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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.

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Active Effect Exertion Faith Happy He Human Humanity Man More Nor Now Only Than Think Will Wise Years Years Ago I Think

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Always Analytic Fact Found Imaginative In Fact Ingenious Never Otherwise Than Truly Will

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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.

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Because Case Discussed Excess Hundred Ninety-Nine Obscure Out Point Remaining

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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.

~Edgar Allan Poe

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 19th, 1809

Died: October 7th, 1849

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