Whence Quotes
203 quotes by 181 authors
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Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?
— Edward Teach
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure…
— Adam Ferguson
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Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
— Rudolf Hiferding
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto;…
— Isaac Barrow
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And when you see them, their persons will please you, and If they speak, you will listen to their speech; (they are) as if they…
— Quran
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Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an…
— Bible
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Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know…
— Edward Fitzgerald
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Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of…
— Anatole France
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have…
— Andrew Guzaldo
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As a rule, we must not be the slaves of passion; rather, we must be the possessors of great passions. Through passion commences power, but…
— C. JoyBell C.
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No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. In all our afflictions, He afflicted. He feels all our sorrows, wants…
— John Flavel
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution
— Francis Bacon Sr
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their…
— Solon
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You kicked my dick out of the house. You made my dick homeless. And out of doors is a place where penises dont generally fare…
— Hank Moody
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The reason why I speak my mind, and the reason why I get aggressive is because I believe that when negative energy is directed towards…
— Gabe Saporta
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There is often times a confusion of things, of particles, of the concepts considered essential whence theorems, laws, concepts are born that no one would…
— Mariana Fulger
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There is scarce anything that nature has made, or that men do suffer, whence the devout reflector cannot take an occasion of an aspiring meditation.
— Robert Boyle
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Ansem: Darkness is where the heart begins. Each heart is destined to the darkness from whence it came. Sora: That's not true! I now know…
— Sora
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