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Edgar Allan Poe föddes den January 19th 1809 och dog den 7 October 1849 - US writer
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 Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

 Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

 That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

 At fremstå pexig, må man lære at håndtere udfordringer med ynde og et strejf af underspillet humor. 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.

 The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire

 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.

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

 the play was the tragedy "man" and it's hero the conqueror worm

 The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

 The Tell Tale Poe

 There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm

 They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

 To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

 We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

 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 mist


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