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Updated: May 1, 2025
We should not be far wrong in saying that to-day there are more riddles in the universe than there were before men knew that it contained anything more than the objects they could see. So far as mere material progress is concerned, it may be doubtful whether anything so epoch-making as the steam-engine or the telegraph is held in store for us by the future.
Such a trifle might have saved us! yet there was no pitying hand put forth to avert that which, in our human blindness, appeared to us to be as unimportant as any other incident of our lives. Life is an unsolvable problem. Shall we ever, in some other world, I wonder, read its riddles aright?
For the student of the sixteenth century they remain riddles, the solution of which is difficult, because by no strain of the imagination is it easy to place ourselves in their position. One half of their written utterances seem to be at variance with the other half.
Only look, now, at that heyduck, he has completely doubled up one of those beautiful salad-bowls, in order to force it into the mouth of the sack." "What signifies, dear baron? That said salad-bowl will never again he used for salad, henceforth it is only silver." "You speak in riddles, and I do not understand you.
"I could no more guess a riddle to-day than I could give a dissertation on theology. Riddles are for rainy days in winter, when we sit by the fire in the evening wishing it were morning again. I know the great riddle at last I have found it out. It is the most beautiful thing in the world." "Then it is true," observed Nella, looking at her with satisfaction.
He can 'deliver me from my enemies, for they are too strong for me. It is Christ and His work, Christ and His sacrifice, Christ and His indwelling Spirit that will grapple with and overcome sin and all its consequences, in any man and in every man; taking away its penalty, lightening the heart of the burden of its guilt, delivering from its love and dominion all three of which things are the barbs of the arrows with which fear riddles heart and conscience.
Most of us, shrinking from the difficulties and dangers which beset the seeker after original answers to these riddles, are contented to ignore them altogether, or to smother the investigating spirit under the featherbed of respected and respectable tradition.
The passionate desire of youth to solve the world's big riddles had given place to a resignation filled to the brim with wonder. Anything might be true. Nothing surprised him. The most outlandish beliefs, for all he knew, might fringe truth somewhere.
She sat for a minute or two first at one table and then at another, and asked silly riddles, and sent to the kitchen for a ham, and put out all the electric light by mistake, when she meant to turn on some more.
Probably I suppose myself to succeed because I have no great requirement of it; I cannot say. We are riddles to ourselves." Mrs. Mountstuart pricked the turf with the point of her parasol. She looked down and she looked up. "Well?" said he to her eyes. "Well, and where is Laetitia Dale?" He turned about to show his face elsewhere.
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