Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

—Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and...

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active—not more happy—nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

—Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

—Edgar Allan Poe

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.

—Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

—Edgar Allan Poe

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But penance need not be paid in suffering… It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

—Barbara Hall

To perceive is to suffer.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

—Albert Schweitzer

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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

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Without meaning to belittle the wonders of science, I do not think they can absolve mankind of suffering, desire, madness, and death.

—Lewis H. Lapham

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