Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir.… — David A. Cooper Copy Share Image
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to… — Celia Rees Copy Share Image
But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
As we approach the Golden Age, the veils shall be removed and the people of the Earth shall become aware of the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to… — John Randolph Price Copy Share Image
...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
The most important part of the daily ministration was the service performed in behalf of individuals. ... By his own hand the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
