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The reason we're here is because of a little girl who was 9 years old and lived in Florida, ... I hope we get to the day in this country when we can quit naming bills after murdered children.


Ted Poe

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EDGAR ALLAN POE years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
EDGAR ALLAN POE We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, th...
EDGAR ALLAN POE There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Lord help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POE A hero is someone who is selfless.
MARK ANDREW POE If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE That I scarce was sure I heard you- here I opened wide the door;- 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