Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail."
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Sparrows
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest."
Thornton Wilder
Playwright, Novelist, Poet
"Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?"
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"The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped."
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"Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all."
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"The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!"
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"One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows."
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"I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel."
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"The sparrow still falls."
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"Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject."
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"Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it."
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"You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that."
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