As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
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Related Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to hi... MATTHEW PEARL I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. JACK PRELUTSKY Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre. EDGAR ALLAN POE The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. TOM ROBBINS Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe. GILES FODEN Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot. EDGAR ALLAN POE I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. ANDY RICHTER Quoth the raven nevermore. EDGAR ALLAN POE No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ... H. P. LOVECRAFT I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. MARGARET ATWOOD The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machi... JULIO CORTáZAR She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way i... POE Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie... EDGAR ALLAN POE The past is a pebble in my shoe. POE Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even t... LYNDA RESNICK At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. EDGAR ALLAN POE Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are." The bird turned, head tipped, suspi... NEIL GAIMAN Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I w... DOVE CAMERON The End of the Raven "On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward sl... HENRY N. BEARD I saw thee once - only once - years ago: I must not say how many - but not many. It was a ... EDGAR ALLAN POE All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many... EDGAR ALLAN POE War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Each of us individually has ... JAMES DENNEY We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak gr... OTTO VON BISMARCK As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his pr... JOSEPH CONRAD Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole... LEO TOLSTOY The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a cowar... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,... EDGAR ALLAN POE Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ... ERIN MORGENSTERN I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only p... HILARIE BURTON The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds th... ADAM SEDGWICK If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe d... QUENTIN CRISP I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. GEORGE GORDON BYRON The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we... STEPHEN COVEY In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of i... LUDWIG VON MISES The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the... BERTRAND RUSSELL The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. TOM ROBBINS If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freed... MURRAY ROTHBARD An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con... MARIA MONTESSORI I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” “I’m in lov... ERIN MORGENSTERN Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ... EVA LONGORIA I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation... REID SCOTT The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to th... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out ... EDGAR ALLAN POE Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. JAMES HARRINGTON There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. BIBLE As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. BOOK OF PROVERBS CHAPTER 23 VERSE 7 As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Physically in terms of his ability he's as good as any quarterback in the draft this year. ERIC DECOSTA That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what inst... WILLIAM BERNBACH The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. DYAN CANNON He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed t... LIN YUTANG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't jus... JOHN DAVIDSON I did not climb up into the Godhead, neither can so mean a man as I am do it; but the Godhead climbe... JACOB BOEHME ,i>Since the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manne... ALAN GARRETT God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t. CAREW PAPRITZ All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN
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EDGAR ALLAN POE Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every... EDGAR ALLAN POE Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting— “Get thee back ... EDGAR ALLAN POE Darkness there, and nothing more. EDGAR ALLAN POE Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore! EDGAR ALLAN POE Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.�... EDGAR ALLAN POE Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming drea... EDGAR ALLAN POE Here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there, and nothing more. EDGAR ALLAN POE Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose fo... EDGAR ALLAN POE Leave my loneliness unbroken EDGAR ALLAN POE Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore... EDGAR ALLAN POE Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. 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Darkness there, and nothing more. EDGAR ALLAN POE I am ugly. EDGAR ALLAN POE The angels, whispering to one another Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotiona... EDGAR ALLAN POE On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Then the bird said "Nevermore. EDGAR ALLAN POE [Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue. EDGAR ALLAN POE To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness EDGAR ALLAN POE A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages... EDGAR ALLAN POE Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio... EDGAR ALLAN POE I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched. EDGAR ALLAN POE That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "od... EDGAR ALLAN POE The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc... EDGAR ALLAN POE True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The... EDGAR ALLAN POE Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. EDGAR ALLAN POE Invisible things are the only realities. EDGAR ALLAN POE A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. EDGAR ALLAN POE The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien... EDGAR ALLAN POE When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort... EDGAR ALLAN POE Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them EDGAR ALLAN POE I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty EDGAR ALLAN POE All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream EDGAR ALLAN POE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volum... EDGAR ALLAN POE A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. EDGAR ALLAN POE Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the ... EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this / that offences against Charity are about the o... EDGAR ALLAN POE ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ... EDGAR ALLAN POE A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you... EDGAR ALLAN POE Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is t... EDGAR ALLAN POE In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose... EDGAR ALLAN POE Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions ... EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the o... EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw. EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre. EDGAR ALLAN POE The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma... EDGAR ALLAN POE ...And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted--nevermore! EDGAR ALLAN POE There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume t... EDGAR ALLAN POE I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched. EDGAR ALLAN POE Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human ... EDGAR ALLAN POE Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul... EDGAR ALLAN POE In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values,... EDGAR ALLAN POE Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expectiing that it soon will be
so. EDGAR ALLAN POE The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God. EDGAR ALLAN POE Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b... EDGAR ALLAN POE All I lov'd I lov'd alone. EDGAR ALLAN POE The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the uno... EDGAR ALLAN POE I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence EDGAR ALLAN POE There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm EDGAR ALLAN POE All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry EDGAR ALLAN POE But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the... EDGAR ALLAN POE Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho... EDGAR ALLAN POE تنفلت المواد من إدراك حواس الإنسان تدريجياً. لدينا مثل�... EDGAR ALLAN POE The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more... EDGAR ALLAN POE Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- Yo... EDGAR ALLAN POE