Edgar Allan Poe

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

  “Eleonora” (1841).

  • Thinking

• Years of love have been forgot
  In the hatred of a minute.

  To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

  • Love

• And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
  Shall be lifted — nevermore!

  The Raven (1844), Stanza 18.In context

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy