Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Ostriches Quotes, Wings Quotes

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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

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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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

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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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

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

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What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

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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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For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

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

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wings Quotes , Feet 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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