He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art the messenger, shalt ride before him
On a horse cut out of an entire diamond.
That shall be made to go with golden wheels,
I know not how yet.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Quotes , Source: A King and No King (act V)
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Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
[Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
Nox nulla secuta est.]
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: quoting Giraldus Gambrensis found in Camden "Epigrammes"
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to
himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will
find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the
discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Quotes , Source: Unwelcome
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"Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired
Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam
triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no
man never see, and that's a dead donkey."
Charles Dickens
Quotes , Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. LI)
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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
Quotes , Source: Theodore and Honoria (l. 217)
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The things that have been and shall be no more,
The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,
The things that might have been, and yet were not,
The fading twilight of joys departed.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Christus--Divine Tragedy--First Passover (III, Marriage in Cana)
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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a
philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than
this.
Plato
Quotes , Source: Theoetetus (XXXII), (Cary's translation)
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 169)
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Out of our reach the gods have laid
Of time to come th' event,
And laugh to see the fools afraid
Of what the knaves invent.
Sir Charles Sedley
Quotes , Source: Lycophron
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O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet
again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: As You Like It (Celia at III, ii)
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Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud
Without our special wonder?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
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It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;
Augures and understood relations have
By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
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She swore, i' faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange;
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
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There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon.
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Peter Bell (prologue, st. 1)
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous;
Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
Edward Young
Quotes , Source: Night Thoughts (night VII)
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