Whereof Quotes

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. — John Bunyan
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress… — John Climacus
But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your… — Samuel Rutherford
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have… — Thomas Hobbes
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am… — Jonathan Swift
A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, â€˜If itâ€™s fair, it is not a true trial!â€™ That is, without the… — Neal A. Maxwell
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ; One only is… — Giordano Bruno
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within… — Abraham Lincoln
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a… — Thomas Carlyle
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?â€”yea,… — Cotton Mather
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any… — Michael Ruse
Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many… — Thomas Cranmer
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful… — John Jewel
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which… — George Mason
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly… — Jonathan Swift
From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts… — Isaac Newton
Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little… — William Shakespeare
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general… — Marquis de Sade

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