Dante Alighieri Quotes, Men Quotes, Wings Quotes

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dog Quotes , Wings Quotes

Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death 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

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wings Quotes , Tears Quotes

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Communication 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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wings Quotes , Yield Quotes

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

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

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Giving 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

Music gives a soul to the universe.

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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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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

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

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Tags : Abbas ibn Firnas Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

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

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

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Wings Quotes