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Letter "M" » marvelous
«One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun?which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...»
Author: Frances Burnett
| About:
Dawn,
Immortality,
Moments,
Time
| Keywords:
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«Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
equally, expressions, man of science, marvelous, plasticity, unique
«Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners»
Author: Muslih-uddin Sadi
| About:
Journey
| Keywords:
beholding, benefits, freshness, journeying, marvelous
«I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.»
Author: Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Actress)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
house, housekeeper, housekeepers, leave, marvelous
«I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.»
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest»
«Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| Keywords:
marvelous
«People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.»
«O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
| Keywords:
configuration, configurations, marvelous, multiplicity
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