Wondrous Quotes - Page 9

• If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

  Thomas Otway

  Love Is, Treasure, Rich

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

  Robert Burns

  Eye, Men, Mind

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• These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

  John Milton

  God, Song, Angel

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 164

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• Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical — and maybe even experimental — grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.

  Lisa Randall

  Lying, Taken, Thinking

  "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions". Book by Lisa Randall, 2005.

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.

  Dogen

  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

  Rachel Hartman

  Ignorance, Needs, Treasure

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.164, Random House

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• In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men.
  [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

  Plautus

  Sports, Men, Way

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• How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Beautiful, Lonely, Heart

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• Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Kids, Fields, Study

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2011

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• When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.

  Van Morrison

  Inspirational, Moving, Spirit

  Song: Did Ye Get Healed?, Album: Poetic Champions Compose

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• I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

  Jan Karon

  Names, Sound, Hearing

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• Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.
  Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

  Dean Koontz

  Journey, Men, Thinking

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• It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellence, Constant, Stills

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• Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!

  Tom Lehrer

  Humorous, Advertising

  Song: A Christmas Carol, Album: More of Tom Lehrer

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• Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Life Is, Phenomenon

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• We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Strong, Audacity, Moral

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• Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs when we realize that what really matters is to deepen our relationship to ourselves and that to do this we have to enter a spiritual journey. We have to discover anew, or for the first time, our own relationship to the Infinite. We must begin to risk trusting a whole new level of intimacy with ourselves, life and the people whose lives we touch.

  Richard Moss

  Spiritual, Real, Journey

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• I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Space, Decay

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VIII, 50,

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• The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.

  Seal

  World, Fantastic, Places To Live

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• Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Book, Mirrors, Dust

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• Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  New Year, Believe, Years

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• You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and you should have a good agent and you should work really, really hard. But you should also be filled with awe and gratitude about this amazing way to be in the world.

  Susan Orlean

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Smart

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