Wherein Quotes
221 quotes by 180 authors
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
— Saint Augustine
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Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.
— Philip Stubbs
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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That…
— Edith Wharton
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A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
— Charles Kingsley
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
— Michel de Montaigne
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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our…
— Thomas Browne
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch…
— Edmund Husserl
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Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David,…
— William Gurnall
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
— Anatole France
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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is…
— Thomas Traherne
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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of…
— Seneca the Younger
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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a…
— James Bryce
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Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of…
— William Lawson
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Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
— John Owen
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The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning…
— Horace Greeley
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that…
— Dave Barry
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Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will…
— Jan Swammerdam
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The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day…
— Meister Eckhart
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