“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.” HeartRealHandsBeautifulWaterNatureClearMysteryTreeEqualShadowGreenHopefullyLandscapeHeightLife And DeathDivisionShadeFar AwayPurpleSolemnHushReassuringMystery Of LifeHands UpTree Tops Book:The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit
“There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.” MenMadeHeavenHellMysteryHighestMiracleDepthHeightLowestEverlastingHeaven And Hell Author:Thomas Carlyle
“Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!” Life IsHeavenChristMysterySeaDepthHeightReaching Book:Religious Poems Source: Religious Poems
“Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.” LittlesLongHardFormSpeakLanguageEasyKnowledgeMysteryIgnoranceSpeechAbuseMysteriousHeightVagueMistakenSpeculationPrescriptionsHindranceTrue KnowledgeDeep Learning Author:John Locke
“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.” IfsKnowsFallVoiceMemoriesMysteryHeightContemplationCosmosSensationsInsignificantSpinePale Blue Dot Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos