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Quotes from Marginalia — Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849 United States

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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Marginalia (1844)

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

Marginalia (1844)

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

Marginalia (1844)

I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.

Marginalia (1844)

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

Marginalia (1844)

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this — that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made, not to understand, but to feel, as crime.

Marginalia (1844)

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age; since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information, by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

Marginalia (1844)

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".

Marginalia (1844)

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