The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

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The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen...

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole...

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole...

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes...

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes...

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as...

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as...

The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.

The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can...

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can...

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and...

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and...

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take...

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take...

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or...

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or...

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,...

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,...

What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as...

What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly...

Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly...

The final mystery is oneself.

The final mystery is oneself.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather,...

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather,...

The broad highway to poverty and need - Is, much to build and many mouths...

The broad highway to poverty and need - Is, much to build and many mouths...