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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.
If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.
Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either
Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments.
We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
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!
Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.
Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun
The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.