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«The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admire, critic, generous, poet, with reason
«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.»
«To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
clasp, clasped, clasps, conversant, despair, final, iron, lesson, thoroughly, volume
«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»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
arises, irrelevant, larger, portion, seemingly, shown, vast
«I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.»
«Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart-one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
faculties, Human heart, impulses, indivisible, perverseness, primary, primitive, sentiments
«The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
LED, mob, mobs, nose, nosed, nosing, on the nose, quietly, The Nose, under his nose, under your nose
«It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
As of, in general, in particular, ore, ores, particular, richest, superficial
«Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.»
«To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness»
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