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Definition of Marvelous
Marvelous

Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.

Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible.

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Marvelous Quotations

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Noam Chomsky

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Johnny Carson

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
Charles Baudelaire

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer


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