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• The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

  Plato

  Wings, Race, Flying

  Plato (1953). “Plato: With an English Translation”

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• America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eagles, America, Ready

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wings, Bird, Gold

  Rabindranath Tagore (1949). “Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore”

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• The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Passion, Essentials

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• The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Giving, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

  John Henry Newman

  Creeps, Certainty, Ifs

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• Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Wings, Heaven

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• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

  William Wordsworth

  Positive, Weed, Wisdom

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• A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

  William Wordsworth

  Cheerful, Delight, Spirit

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.186

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• Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Wings, Golden

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.190

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• Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

  John Dryden

  Stupid, Tired, Eagles

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.344

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• Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

  Alma Gluck

  Butterfly, Artist, Bird

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• Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patience, Fall, Action

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Eagles, Space

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.473, Velvet Element Books

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• Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Eagles, Ducks

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• Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

  Robert M. Fresco

  Ocean, Sky, Depth

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• But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Moving, People, Needs

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.198, Egmont UK

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• You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

  William Shakespeare

  Wings, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lovers

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.56, Classic Books Company

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• You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.

  Ed Sabol

  Eagles, Canaries, Crap

  "Ed Sabol, Founder Of NFL Films, Dies At 98" by Sam Sanders, knkx.org. February 9, 2015.

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• In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fall, Effort

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1858). “The literati”, p.525

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• There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Stupid, Heart

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

  Rick Renzi

  Summer, America, Energy

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• Ambition can creep as well as soar.

  Edmund Burke

  Business, Ambition, Creeps

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Wings, Two

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Moon, Men, Space

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