Plato Quotes, Wings Quotes, Giving Quotes

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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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 poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Dwelling Place Quotes , Wings 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

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

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

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Wings Quotes

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wings Quotes , Peaceful Quotes

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Angel Quotes , Wings Quotes

No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sky Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Wine Quotes , Wings 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 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

Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Sports Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Light Quotes , Wings Quotes

But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.

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Tags : Abdellatif Laabi Quotes , Dwarves Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Wings Quotes