Marvel
That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
Wonder.
To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.
To marvel at.
To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.
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Marvel Quotations
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
Henry Miller
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
Joan of Arc
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
Ella Maillart
All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
Hedy Lamarr
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Elie Wiesel
Marvel Translations
marvel in Afrikaans is verbaas hom
marvel in Danish is undre sig
marvel in Dutch is zich verbazen, zich verwonderen
marvel in German is Wunderding, Wunder, staunen
marvel in Portuguese is maravilha
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