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“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”

Edgar Allan Poe · Life

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Edgar Allan Poe

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.

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Edgar Allan Poe

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

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Edgar Allan Poe

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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