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Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.
William Cowper
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He grew, and grew, A star-bright sign of fated empery; And all conspiring omens led him on To lofty purpose and pre-eminence. The mountain eagles, towering in their pride, Stoop'd at his beck and flock'd about his path, Like the small birds by wintry famine tamed; Or with their dusky and expansive wings Shaded and fann'd him as he slept at noon. The lightnings danced before him sportively, And shone innocuous as the pale cold moon In the clear blue of his celestial eye.

hartley coleridge

— Sylphs. (Prometheus)

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Saul and Jonathan were lovelyand pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions? I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

Bible (Old Testament)

— Samuel1:23-7.

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Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lshall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Bible (Old Testament)

— ORD Isaiah 40:30-31.

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"Regions Caesar never knewThy posterity shall sway;Where his eagles never flew,None invincible as they."Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.

william cowper

— "Boadicea" (1782).

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You are the weakest and the least, and the last to be redeemed.... You will be freed, when man will rise above the earthly, when human worms will turn into human eagles.

isaac leib peretz

— The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319.

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After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws."

Plutarch

— Cicero. (Others)

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The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

— "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"; an earlier variant, rather than "Even eagles...": "Heavy hippopotami do it..."

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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

alan watts

— (page 22) (The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966))

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Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.


— Matthew, XXIV, 28. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)

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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, Moral Essays. Epistle to Addison, line 30.

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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.


— Alfred Tennyson, Golden Year, line 37.

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All furnish'd, all in arms; All plum'd, like estridges that with the wind Baited, like eagles having lately bath'd.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act IV, Scene 1, line 97.

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What heavy guilt upon him lies! How cursed is his name! The ravens shall pick out his eyes, And eagles eat the same.

Isaac Watts

— Isaac Watts, Obedience.

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"Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they." Such the bard's prophetic words , Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.


— William Cowper in "Boadicea" (1782).

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I had as lief preach humanity to a battle of eagles, as to urge honesty and integrity upon those who have determined to be rich, and to gain it by gambling stakes, and madmen's ventures.


— Henry Ward Beecher, p. 623. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine; A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, Moral Essays. Epistle to Addison. line 27.

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After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws."


— Cicero.

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The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

— Cole Porter, Paris (musical), (1928), "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"

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All plum'd like estridges, that with the wind; Baited like eagles having lately bath'd; Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm’d, Rise from the ground like feather’d Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp’d down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.


— Vernon, scene i

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I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch: Since every Jack became a gentleman, There's many a gentle person made a Jack.


— Richard, Duke of Gloucester, scene iii

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Love lifts us up where we belong, where the eagles cry, on a mountain high. Love lifts us up where we belong, far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow.


— "Up Where We Belong", song performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).

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