Whence Quotes

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Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your… — Thomas Merton
I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going… — Amerigo Vespucci
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk:… — Thomas Carlyle
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of… — Alexander Hamilton
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb… — Thomas More
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came — Sophocles
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running… — Aron Nimzowitsch
"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is… — William Wordsworth
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came. — Sophocles
The inner music of the Soul is the real song. It's tunes are self-existing and self-supporting and need no outer aids of hands, feet or… — Kirpal Singh
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came,… — Gregory Palamas
Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western… — Swami Vivekananda
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless… — Alexander Pope
Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived? — William Butler Yeats
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. — Baron de Montesquieu

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