Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Angel 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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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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

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

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

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When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

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

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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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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

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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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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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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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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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