Lord Byron Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Wings Quotes

Frienship is eros...without wings

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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Wings Quotes , Ideas 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

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

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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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Wings Quotes , Hawks 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

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

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wings Quotes , Romeo And Juliet Love Quotes

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Wings Quotes , White Quotes

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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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wings Quotes , Tears 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

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

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Race Quotes

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Wings Quotes , Reason Quotes

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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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Communication Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Years Quotes , Wings Quotes

Music gives a soul to the universe.

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