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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Imagination

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Love

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
Poetry

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

"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."

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary..."

"A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms."

"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."

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

"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."

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind."

"There 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."

"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."

"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."

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