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“Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder through inspiration, reverence, gratitude, interconnectedness, transcendence, and grace.”

Inspiration Moving Realizing Wonder Greater Grace Gratitude Miracle Everyday Contact Reverence Transcendence Interconnectedness

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.”

“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.”

Heart Stars Space Wonder Greater Wonderful Effects Universal Miracle Unity Interiors Responding Trophies Vaults Marveling

Book:Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities

“No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.”

Ifs Wonder Greater Cease

Book:Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

“As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is!”

Men Wells Mean Behinds Wonder Greater Queens Great Men Wonder Woman Hera Behind Every Great Man

Author:Marg Helgenberger

“Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”

Source: Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition

“So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.”

Humans Happens Race Wonder Technology Greater Destruction Human Race Advancing Greater Power

Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.”

“Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.”

People Firsts Wonder Greater Findings Novelists Pace First Love

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .”

Mind Humans Character Past Wonder Forever Greater Movement Infinite Complexes Depth Senses Endless Mysterious Variety Human Life Destination Mist Unfathomable Entirety Intricacy

Book:The Tesla Papers

Source: The Tesla Papers