“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”

Book I, Ch. 1. That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Sir Robert Peel
Biographical Studies (1907)

Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"

Book I, 645a.16
Parts of Animals

Tal par gran meraviglia, et poi si sprezza.
Canzone 105, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life

Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 1, Nature
Context: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Context: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Kalla det vad fan du vill, Finland 2005, p. 85

How to Catch a Man, Keep a Man, and Get Rid of a Man (Doubleday, 1970)