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• That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing...
• 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 (1788-1824) -- English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Line 826...
• So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
  -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre)...
• No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close
  As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turn'd when he rose....
• He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- The Whistle, November, 1779...
• The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Preface to Corruption and Intolerance...
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• Brockman: ... means death for us all. And now, "Kent's People!
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