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"Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills."
"Dare to love God without mediator or veil."
"However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out."
"Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade."
"A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies."
"Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand."
"[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him."
"Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!"
"There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer."
"And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings."
"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil."
"Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together."
"It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch."
"Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses."
"Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension."
"In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill."
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."
"We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments."
"Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body."
"All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us."
