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Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I… — Anton Chekhov
What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in… — Thomas Berry
In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself… — Peter Abelard
O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And… — George Arnold
Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people,… — George Mason
We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical… — Charles Simeon
Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things… — Dion Fortune
We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work… — Bruce R. McConkie
Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of… — Plato
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few. — William Wordsworth
Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As… — William Edmondstoune Aytoun
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and… — Joseph Addison
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up… — Jeremy Bentham
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed — Publilius Syrus
Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives? — Charles Lamb
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism… — Os Guinness
Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be. — Catulle Mendes

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