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What use to brood? This life of mingled pains
And joys to me,
Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains
The Mystery.
--
To Mary Boyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Alfred Tennyson (Lord)

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There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. The mystery of the nighthawk against a darkening sky, the puzzle of the firefly along the lilac hedge.

 

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Hence vain deluding Joys,
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