Whence Quotes

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er… — Walter Scott
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of… — Justus von Liebig
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own… — Socrates
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,… — John Donne
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think… — Giordano Bruno
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by… — Umberto Eco
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river… — Ramana Maharshi
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of… — Jacques Monod
The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they… — William Gurnall
We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield… — Jonathan Mayhew
The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that… — Thomas Berry
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came. — Edgar Cayce

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