By Undue Profundity We Perplex And Enfeeble Though

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By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and
it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the
firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or
too direct.
-- E.A. Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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