Whence Quotes

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Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and… — Thomas Browne
Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it possible?...… — Frederic Bastiat
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children,… — John Calvin
Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not… — Romain Rolland
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,… — Ruth Pitter
Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails,… — Catherine Marshall
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the… — Thomas G. West
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities… — Thomas Berry
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair… — Thomas Paine
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. — Ramsey Clark
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the… — Lord Byron
Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more… — Victor Turner
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the… — William Blake
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows… — Marquis de Sade
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the… — Oliver Goldsmith
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall… — Henry George
In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than… — Nicolaus Copernicus

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