01c. 1829 ADScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
02c. 1829 ADA 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.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
03c. 1829 ADThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
04c. 1829 ADWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
06c. 1829 ADExperience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
07c. 1829 ADIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
09c. 1829 ADTo vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
10c. 1829 ADI 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.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
11c. 1829 ADThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
12c. 1829 ADThere is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
