Hither Quotes
53 quotes by 47 authors
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
— Thomas Paine
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Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a…
— Loren Eiseley
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No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in…
— Ingmar Bergman
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If…
— Plutarch
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The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent…
— Theophile Gautier
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Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I…
— Erik Naggum
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Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to…
— William Mountford
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First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of…
— Arthur E Waite
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Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only…
— Zhuangzi
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A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork…
— Karl G. Maeser
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Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly each day. Let my Ba-soul…
— Raymond O. Faulkner
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Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie…
— John Donne
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Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
— William Wordsworth
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The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service…
— Plato
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen…
— William Allen White
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Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore…
— Anne Boleyn
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