Thence Quotes
65 quotes by 58 authors
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their…
— Teresa of Avila
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Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never…
— Giacomo Casanova
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All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
— Immanuel Kant
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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To…
— John Milton
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Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played…
— Benjamin Franklin
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This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each…
— Herodotus
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in…
— John Keats
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In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
— John Donne
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... it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
— William Shakespeare
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In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model…
— John Tukey
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it…
— Leonhard Euler
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Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in…
— Penelope Lively
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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally…
— Giambattista Vico
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold…
— John Milton
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It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The…
— John Milton
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Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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