Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil! — Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted 


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I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether h...
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GEORGE GORDON BYRON
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It’s this or nothing at all.
R.J. GROVES
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the h...
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Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
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Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or mad...
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LYNDA RESNICK
We debated whether we could take on this new thing on top of all that we were already doing.
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HILARIE BURTON
No one should live by the early bird policy without finding out whether he classifies as a bird or a...
UNKNOWN
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ALICE NEEL
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...
KHALIL GIBRAN
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I didn't know whether I should pray to the devil or to God.
ARMIN MEIWES
Whether this ride lasts for one year or 10 years, I want to have a home base.
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And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, / And thou Be...
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Congress should review and decide on whether or not this deal should proceed.
FRANCINE BUSBY
Neither I nor the newspaper meant any disrespect to their religion or their prophet [by running the ...
AMANDA BENNETT
Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.
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We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.
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There's still a big question mark over whether this acquisition will happen or not.
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All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, / Tell ye the...
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether y...
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at t...
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the de...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.
THOMAS LIGOTTI
This whole thing hinges on Reid. He is the fulcrum on whether anything happens.
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You are always surrounded by wonder, whether you realise this or not.
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The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of th...
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I've made it this far. Depending on whether or not I want to continue going is up to me.
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UNKNOWN
The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but w...
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A zealous man in religion is pre-eminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to say that he is ea...
J.C. RYLE
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "od...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
EDGAR ALLAN POE
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volum...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this / that offences against Charity are about the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is t...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
...And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted--nevermore!
EDGAR ALLAN POE
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume t...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles i...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expectiing that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
All I lov'd I lov'd alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the uno...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence
EDGAR ALLAN POE
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm
EDGAR ALLAN POE
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry
EDGAR ALLAN POE
But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
تنفلت المواد من إدراك حواس الإنسان تدريجياً. لدينا مثل�...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
EDGAR ALLAN POE