Whither Quotes
78 quotes by 67 authors
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Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly,…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even…
— Robert E. Lee
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It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste…
— William Prynne
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How now, wit! Whither wander you?
— William Shakespeare
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We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism…
— Os Guinness
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O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the…
— Thomas Boston
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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
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
— Blaise Pascal
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Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.
— Socrates
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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
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Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to…
— H. Rider Haggard
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And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall…
— Samuel Daniel
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But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I…
— Herman Melville
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This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
— Andre Gide
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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The…
— James Russell Lowell
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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile;…
— John of Ruysbroeck
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