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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Book

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We see God's miracles in His wondrous work and in our own personal lives.

Neil L. Andersen

Miracle, Personal Life

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God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

William Cowper

God, Men, Shining

William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.152

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That I might live alone once with my gold!
O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.

Ben Jonson

Sweet, Brother, Money

Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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Heaven
Is as the Book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read His wondrous works.

John Milton

Book, Heaven, Thee

John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.286, Mercer University Press

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There are gems of wondrous brightness
Ofttimes lying at our feet,
And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
Down the busy, crowded street.
If we knew, our pace would slacken,
We would step more oft with care,
Lest our careless feet be treading
To the earth some jewel rare.

Rudyard Kipling

Lying, Knowledge, Jewels

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What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

Andrew Marvell

Food, Apples, Cooking

'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Prayer, Heart, Two

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[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Cities, Venice, Water

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Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

Vivian Gornick

Boredom, Anxiety, Papa

Vivian Gornick (2005). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, p.23, Macmillan

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For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.

Umberto Eco

Simple, Illustration, Cities

Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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How wondrous familiar is a fool!

Moby

Fool, Familiar

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The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more.

Anne Fortier

Book, Adventure, Night

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A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they crawl on hands and knees and wear diapers or walk with a cane and comb their beards. There's a wondrous magic to Christmas, and there's a special power reserved for little people. In short, there's nothing mightier than the meek, and a merry Christmas to each and all.

Rod Serling

Wise, Children, Merry Christmas

"The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1960.

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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

Humility, Pride, Loss

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

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Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange and there's nothing in life that love cannot change! Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks... Love is the language, that every heart speaks. Love can't be bought, it is priceless and free, love, like pure magic, is life's sweet mystery!

Helen Steiner Rice

Love, Sweet, Heart

Helen Steiner Rice (2007). “A Collection of Love Gifts”, p.3, Barbour Publishing

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The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.

Andrew van der Bijl

People, Ordinary, Impossible

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The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Sound, Lasts, Resurrection

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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 Prentiss

Prayer, Loss, I Love Him

Elizabeth Prentiss (1871). “Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.”, p.311

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The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.

Thomas Gray

Eye, Sky, Long

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A man becomes spiritual insofar as he lives a spiritual life. He begins to see God in all things, to see His power and might in every manifestation. Always and everywhere he sees himself abiding in God and dependent on God for all things. But insofar as a man lives a bodily life, so much he does he do bodily things; He doesn't see God in anything, even in the the most wondrous manifestations of His Divine power. In all things he sees body, material, everywhere and always - "God is not before his eyes." (Ps. 35:2)

John of Kronstadt

Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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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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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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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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