John Milton Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Wings Quotes

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

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Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

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Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

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God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

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The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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