Not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge. Edgar Allan Poe View this quote
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe
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Darkness there, and nothing more. Edgar Allan Poe
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. Edgar Allan Poe
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. 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. Edgar Allan Poe
For all we live to know is known. Edgar Allan Poe
For passion must, with youth, expire. Edgar Allan Poe
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! Edgar Allan Poe
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter. Edgar Allan Poe
I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane. Edgar Allan Poe
American author, poet, editor and literary critic
January 19th, 1809 - October 7th, 1849
