Lord Byron Quotes, Wings Quotes, Quiet Quotes

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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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

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

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Tags : Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings 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

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

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Tags : Aga Khan III Quotes , Life Quotes , Wings 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

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

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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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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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wings Quotes , Lasts Quotes

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Long 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

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

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

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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

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Hands Quotes , Wings Quotes

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wings Quotes , Purple Quotes

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wings Quotes , Ease Quotes

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

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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

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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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Ostriches Quotes , Wings Quotes