Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

-Aquinas, StThomas
  Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it† Its mystery isits life.We must not let indaylight uponmagic.

-Bagehot,Walter
  The English Constitution, ch.6,'The Monarchy (continued)'.

The mystery is why we even collect these figures; if we kept similar statistics for Manhattan Island,Park Avenue could layawake at night worrying about its trade deficit.

-Bartley, Robert Leroy
  On the balance of payments record. The Seven FatYears.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of aneye, atthelasttrump: for thetrumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:51^2.

And upon her forehead was a name written,.

-Bible (NewTestament)
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHEROF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTHRevelation17:5.

I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 9.

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him† Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

-Buechner, (Carl) Frederick
  Now and Then.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma.But perhaps there is a key; that key is Russian national interest.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Radio broadcast,1 Oct.

   Silence ruled this land.Out of silence mystery comes, and magic, and the delicate awareness of unreasoning things.

-Dark, Eleanor ne¤  e  O'Reilly pseudonym Patricia O'Rane
The Timeless Land, pt.1,'1788'.

  Love all God's creation, thewhole of it and every grainof sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's lights. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

-Doolittle,James Harold
^80  The Brothers Karamazov, bk.6, ch.3.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

-Ford, Richard
  The Sportswriter, ch.5.

The knowledge that you can have is inexhaustible, and what is inexhaustible is benevolent. The knowledge that you cannot have is of the riddles of birth and death, of our future destinyand the purposes of God. Here there is no knowledge, but illusions that restrict freedom and limit hope. Accept the mystery behind knowledge: It is not darkness but shadow.

-Frye, Northrop
   Address, Metropolitan United Church, Toronto,10  Apr, quoted by Alexandra  Johnston in Vic Report, spring1991.

Se ha hecho para los vivos y no para los muertos el porque¤   metaf|¤sico y las reflexiones sobre la vida y la muerte, pero no les hace falta aclarar todo el misterio, les hace falta distraerse y son‹  ar en aclararlo. Metaphysical questions and reflections on lifeand death were created for people alive and not for the dead. However, they do not have to solve all mystery; it is enough for them to create some distraction and to dream that they clarify.

-Herna¤ n dez, Felisberto
  Libro sin tapas,'La piedra filosofal' ('The Philosopher's Stone').

Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurledö Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world!

-Honorius of Autun
  'The Bridge of Sighs'.

Cette cloison qui nous se¤  pare du myste'  re des choses et que nous appelons la vie. Life is a screen which separates us from the mystery of things.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.1, bk.1, ch.2.

Tout est myste'  re dans l'Amour. Everything about love is a mystery.

-La Fontaine,Jean de
  Fables, pt.12, no.14,'L'Amour et la folie'.

   Free from desire, you realise the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

-Lao-Tzu   6c
c.250  BC  Tao-te Ching, no.1 (translated by Stephen Mitchell, 1988).

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Michael  Angelo, pt.1, sc.5.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

-McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall
The Mechanical Bride,'Magic that Changes Mood'.