Wondrous Quotes
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The concept of an independent "spiritual realm" does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human.
ursula goodenough— As quoted in The Faith of Scientists : In Their Own Words (2008) by Nancy K. Frankenberry, p. 491
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
edward r. murrow— On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)
Soon as the evening shades prevail, the moon takes up the wondrous tale. And nightly to the listening earth repeats the story of her birth.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Spectator No. 465, Ode.
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
james beattie— The Minstrel, book 1, stanza 16 (1771)
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— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874), The Poet's Tale, The Birds of Killingworth.
If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.
thomas otway— 1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
Isaac Watts— 1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs,'Crucifixion to theWorld, by the Cross of Christ'.
Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices; Who from our mother's arms Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours to-day.
— 1858 Lyra Germanica (translated from the original German of Martin Rinkart 'Nun danket alle Gott', c.1636).
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— To Robert Graham, st. 1 (1791)
Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.
william crookes— In the Preface of Michael Faraday's On the various forces of nature and their relations to each other (1894)
Seekest thou a place at my right hand? Nay, I give thee a more wondrous dignity. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne."
alexander maclaren— P. 432. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Most wondrous book! Bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star by which the bark of man could navigate the sea of life and gain the coast of bliss securely.
robert pollok— The Course of Time: A Poem (1839)
Will ye believeThe wonders of the ocean? how its shoalsSprang from the wave, like flashing light; .. took wing,And, twinkling with a silver glitterance,Flew through the air and sunshine? yet were theyTo sight less wondrous than the tribe who swam,Following like fowlers, with uplifted eye,Their falling quarry: .. language cannot paintTheir splendid tints! though in blue ocean seen,Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,In all its rich variety of shades,Suffus'd with glowing gold.
Robert Southey— Madoc in Wales, Part I, Sec. V - 48 (1805). Compare: "'Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,' As some one somewhere sings about the sky", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 110.
"God save King Robert! then, say I," vociferated Alan, eagerly grasping the knight's hand. "Sit, sit, Sir Knight; and for the love of heaven, speak more of this most wondrous tale. Erewhile, we hear of this goodly Earl of Carrick at Edward's court, doing him homage, serving him as his own English knight, and now in Scotland--aye, and Scotland's king. How may we reconcile these contradictions?"
grace aguilar— Chapter I
Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
thomas aquinas— Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia (Matins hymn for Corpus Christi), stanza 6 (Panis Angelicus)
Roger Bacon had shown how easy it is, and how vain, to survey the operations of Nature and idly refer her wondrous works to chance or accident, or to the immediate interposition of God.
roger bacon— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)
And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
nikolai vasilievich gogol— Vol. I, ch. 7
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue An everlasting vision of the everchanging view A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.
carole king— Tapestry (Tapestry (1971))
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— VIII, 50. (Book VIII)
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 164.
'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 160.
Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.
john dryden— John Dryden, Theodore and Honoria, line 217.
There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work us harm.
phoebe cary— Phoebe Cary, Dove's Eyes.
The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.
Wentworth Dillon— Wentworth Dillon, On the Day of Judgment, Stanza 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 671
The sky is changed! and such a change! O night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 92.
My lord, they say five moons were seen tonight: Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act IV, scene 2, line 182.
