The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. From Democracy in America
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
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If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
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At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be donethen it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will mediate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
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