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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

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

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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

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One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Water Quotes , Bird Quotes

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Eggs Quotes , Bird Quotes

Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Son Quotes , Bird Quotes

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

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For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

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

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You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Song Quotes , Bird Quotes

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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The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

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