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• And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.

  Sarah Smiley

  Beautiful, Morning, Knowing

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• A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Independent, Expression, Genius

  George Edward Woodberry (1916). “Shakespeare: An Address”

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• Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.

  Lewis Thomas

  Views, Body, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.

  Will Self

  Writing, People, Fiction

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• Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

  Steven Morrissey

  Birthday, Shoes, Live Your Life

  "The cradle snatchers". "Melody Maker" Newspaper, September 3, 1983.

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• There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Liars, Mean

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Cutting, Europe, Important

  Source: www.filmuforia.co.uk

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• The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

  Annie Besant

  Yoga, Philosophical, Inspiration

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• Work is its own best earthly meed,
  Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
  Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

  Jean Ingelow

  Work, Sea, Afar

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.232

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• [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Strong, Jumping

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• Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.

  Carlo Rubbia

  Art, Science, Reality

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  We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.

  Julian of Norwich

  Fall, Needs, Weak

  Julian Of Norwich (1998). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

  L. Frank Baum

  Land, Life Is, Unusual

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• I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

  Anton Chekhov

  Heart, Thinking, Tears

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• There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Half, Coincidence

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Tales of Terror and Detection”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them.

  Richard Meale

  Couple, Doors, Play

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Personality, Conversation, Sparkling

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

  Frederic Chopin

  Stars, Heart, Men

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• because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse's)but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, People, Way

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• I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

  Steig Larsson

  Demonstration, Margins, Propositions

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• Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Connections, Information

  "Small Change". www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

  Jules Verne

  Horror, Scene, Pens

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island”, p.433, Xist Publishing

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• Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Mean, Past

  "A life in writing" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

  Angela Carter

  Desire, Shapes, Kaleidoscope

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• I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

  John Berger

  Writing, People, World

  "John Berger: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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