Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Stars Quotes, Wings Quotes

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wings Quotes , Rivers Quotes

No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sky Quotes , Wings Quotes

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Hands Quotes , Wings Quotes

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Wings Quotes , White Quotes

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wings Quotes , Purple Quotes

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

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Tags : Alan Jay Lerner Quotes , Wings Quotes , Done Quotes

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wings Quotes

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Angel Quotes , Wings Quotes

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Wings Quotes , Ideas Quotes

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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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wings Quotes , People Quotes

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Years Quotes , Wings Quotes

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Ambition Quotes , Wings Quotes

But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.

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Tags : Abdellatif Laabi Quotes , Dwarves Quotes , Wings Quotes

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wings Quotes , Lasts Quotes

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

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wind Quotes , Wings Quotes