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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.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
active, ago, appreciable, be active, effect, exertion, humanity, perfectability
«Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them»
«It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
by no means, existence, fancied, fanciest, fancy, fancying, irrational, look upon
«Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.»
«It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
analytic, fanciful, imaginative, ingenious, in fact
«Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
ending, endings, mournful, never-ending, remembrance, remembrances
«That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.»
«I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Confidence,
Trust
| Keywords:
fools, self confidence
«In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.»
«With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.»
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