Alexander Pope Quotes, Bird Quotes, Merit Quotes

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

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Tags : Alan Coren Quotes , Bird Quotes , Sparrows Quotes

God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Justice Quotes , Bird Quotes

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

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I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Bird Quotes

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

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Tags : Alan Feduccia Quotes , Bird Quotes , Earth Quotes

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Bird Quotes

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

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Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

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