John Milton Quotes, Wings Quotes

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

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He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Wings 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

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

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Song Quotes , Wings Quotes

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

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Tags : Adam Pally Quotes , Wings Quotes , Order Quotes

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

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dog Quotes , Wings Quotes

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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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Wings Quotes , Doe Quotes

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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Tags : Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Death Quotes , Wings Quotes

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Eagles Quotes , Wings 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

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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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Butterfly 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

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird 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

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

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Wings Quotes , Evil Quotes

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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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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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Wings Quotes

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Wind Quotes , Wings Quotes