Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Men Quotes, Wings Quotes

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

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

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wings Quotes , Quiet Quotes

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

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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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

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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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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wings Quotes , Ease 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

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

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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

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

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

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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

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

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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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

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

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