79 ordspråk av Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Thank Heaven! the crisis /The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
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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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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
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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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The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
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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
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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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the play was the tragedy "man" and it's hero the conqueror worm
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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The Tell Tale Poe
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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