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
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
james beattie— The Minstrel, book 1, stanza 16 (1771)
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.
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.
Heureux, qui comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage, Ou comme cestuy la' qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourne , plein d'usage et raison, Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son a" ge! Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has taken a wondrous journey Or has won the Golden Fleece, And then returns home wise and useful To live in his homeland the rest of his days.
Joachim du Bellay— 1558 Les Regrets, no.31.
This wondrous miracle did Love devise,
For dancing is love's proper exercise.
— Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza 18 (1596)
Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe— 1587 Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.1, act 2, sc.7.
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)
Here’s to the dayThat wondrous May,A-roaming through the heather,When her little shoesAnd my big bootsWere out on the hills together.And here’s to the nightOf our delight,That held the stars in tether,When her little shoesAnd my big bootsWere under the bed together.
bliss carman— The full toast, as reported in New York Sun. Quoted in John Coldwell Adams, Confederation Voices, 2007.
In politics and politicians' liesThe modern farmer waxes wondrous wise;
john clare— "The Parish: A Satire"
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.
How small a part of time they shareThat are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller— Go, Lovely Rose (1664), st. 2.
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.
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)
Beside the garden walls, We walk in haunts of ancient peace. At night we rest and go to sleep In haunts of ancient peace. The love and light we seek, The words we do not need to speak, Here in this wondrous way we keep These haunts of ancient peace.
van morrison— Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?
van morrison— Did Ye Get Healed?
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing, True but for lying, honest but for stealing, Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
— Sir John Harrington, Of a Precise Tailor.
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
elizabeth payson prentiss— p. 568. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
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.
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)
There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul than to be exposed to God’s Manifestation in His Day, to hear His verses and believe in them, to attain His presence, which is naught but the presence of God, to sail upon the sea of the heavenly kingdom of His good-pleasure, and to partake of the choice fruits of the paradise of His divine Oneness.
— Selections From the Writings of the Báb, p. 74-77
In Belmont is a lady richly left; And she is fair, and fairer than that word, Of wondrous virtues. Sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages.
— Bassanio, scene i
Would it not be wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed like a beautiful flower.
— General Anami, Japanese War Minister, at a meeting of Japan’s Supreme Council for the Direction of the War (August 9, 1945).[ ]
