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221 Wherein quotes by 176 unique authors
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
— William Shakespeare
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth…
— William Shakespeare
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
— William Shakespeare
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A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift…
— H P Lovecraft
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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound…
— John Locke
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A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
— David Sheff
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I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to…
— George MacDonald
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The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with…
— Michael Parenti
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of…
— John Keats
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This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries…
— Paul Brunton
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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception…
— Jonathan Swift
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The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein…
— Georges Bataille
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Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of…
— Paul Murray
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen…
— E. O. Wilson
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Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude…
— Jack London
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No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
— Algernon Blackwood
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There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a…
— Kenneth Grahame
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In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
— Immanuel Kant
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