Famous quotes containing the word mysteries:
“Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“I keep the law,
I hold the mysteries true,
I am the vine,
the branches, you
and you.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)