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    Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

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    A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

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    A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

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    All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

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    All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

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    All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

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    All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

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    All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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    A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

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    Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

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    and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.

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    Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

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    Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

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    And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

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    And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?

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    All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

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    And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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    An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

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    Anybody who thinks there`s not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.

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    And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.

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    And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

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    Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!

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    A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

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    Are you okay?" Daniel whispered, his voice soft, his lips so close to hers. "Yes." She could feel the beating of his wings. "You caught me." "I will always catch you when you fall.

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    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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    A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

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    A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

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    A person should have wings to carry them where their dreams go, but sometimes a pair of skis makes a good substitute.

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    Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!

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    As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

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    As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

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    As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

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    Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

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    A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

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    A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.

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    Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

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    A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

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    At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

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    At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

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    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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    Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

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    A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left.

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    A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

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    A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

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

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    Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

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    Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.

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    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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    Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.

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    Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?