Bridget Eddy's favorite quotes

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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

tags: happiness, humanity, perfection, time

43 people liked it

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
— Edgar Allan Poe

32 people liked it

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
— Edgar Allan Poe

21 people liked it

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: day, dreaming, dreams, night

573 people liked it

"Invisible things are the only realities."
— Edgar Allan Poe (Loss of Breath)

tags: humor, satire

16 people liked it

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: dreaming, dreams, perception

340 people liked it

"There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell. "
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: allan, edgar, hell, horror, poe

7 people liked it

"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bad, books, good, great, reading, writing

7 people liked it

"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: allan, edgar, horror, morgue, poe, rue

2 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love

1,518 people liked it

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom

857 people liked it

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul

628 people liked it

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship

191 people liked it

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
— Aristotle

tags: education

82 people liked it

"A friend to all is a friend to none."
— Aristotle

47 people liked it

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
— Aristotle

tags: work

27 people liked it

"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."
— Aristotle

tags: patience

28 people liked it

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."
— Aristotle

tags: ethics, philosophy, self--discovery

12 people liked it

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
— Aristotle

tags: inequality

16 people liked it

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
— Aristotle

tags: poetry

8 people liked it

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