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Alexander Pope
Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Author Unknown
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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Bible
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the Raven Nevermore!
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Eric Berne
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
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George Herbert
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.
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Harper Lee
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Henry David Thoreau
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
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Henry Van Dyke
Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought? Whose household words are songs in many keys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
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Henry Ward Beecher
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet.
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Izaak Walton
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
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J.G. Holland
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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