I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
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I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
- Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
- 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.
- Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
- Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
- I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
- It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
- Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
- Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Best Quotes
- I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- The past doesn't decide who we are. The present does.
- It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
- Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
- Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.