John Milton Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Wings Quotes

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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

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

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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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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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Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

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

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Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

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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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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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

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

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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

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

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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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