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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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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

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

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Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Wings Quotes

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

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

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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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

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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

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

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

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

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Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

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You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

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Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

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Tags : Aga Khan III Quotes , Life Quotes , Wings Quotes

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

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