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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid blind.
William Shakespeare
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Let no man value at a little priceA virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spiritIs feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

George Chapman

— The Gentleman Usher, Act iv, scene 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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— Helena, Act I, scene i.

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'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle , stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

lord byron

— Line 826. A number of authors have addressed this common motif of an eagle shot with an eagle-feather arrow

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So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

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— Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), line 826.

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I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd From the spungy south to this part of the west, There vanish'd in the sunbeams.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act IV, scene 2, line 348.

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When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit, I am perplext, and often stricken mute, Wondering which attained the higher bliss, The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.

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— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Sonnet, Pursuit and Possession.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.


— Helena, scene i

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.


— William Shakespeare, Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), Act I, scene i.

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