"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.“
-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."
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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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"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
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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."
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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
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