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    We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is read more

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

by James Arthur Baldwin Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

by Leo Tolstoy Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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Mystery and innocence are not akin.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

by Hosea Ballou Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

by Omar Bradley Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a read more

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

by Frederick Buechner Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of read more

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

by Kahlil Gibran Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that read more

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.'

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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of read more

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

by Charles W. Chesnutt Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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