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- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can… — David Brainerd
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson
- One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know… — John M. Tyler
- Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good… — Edmund Burke
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus
- A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,… — Niccolo Machiavelli