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Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed — Publilius Syrus

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come ... — Zoroaster

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs. — Christopher Marlowe

He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea. — Ramana Maharshi

Whither do I call Thee, since I am in Thee? or whence canst Thou enter into — Augustine Of Hippo

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? — Robin Hobb

He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was — Leo Tolstoy

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. — William Dyer

From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced. — Thomas Hobbes

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came. — Tania James

What shall we call this undetermin'd state,
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans,
That whence we came, and that to which we tend? — George Lillo

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

If it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness. — James Joyce

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel De Montaigne

FROM WHENCE YOU SPRANG. — Kate Mulgrew

Whence has come thy lasting power. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. — James Baldwin

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. — Walter Raleigh

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made. — Horatio Nelson

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold
Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A union of the States is a union of the men composing them, from whence a national character result to the whole, — Rufus King

"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail? — William Wordsworth

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. — Charles De Secondat

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions. — R.D. Laing

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. — Max Planck

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. — Christopher Marlowe

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come. — Francis Bacon

But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop? — Vladimir Nabokov

Grief has this that is noble in it - it accepts all sympathy, come whence it may. She — Wilkie Collins

Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they? Whence came their swords? Why do they obey? — George R R Martin

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives? — Charles Lamb

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. — Francis Bacon

Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. — William Shakespeare

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Whence thine eyes see equanimity in
all things...this is peace. — Christine Horner

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came. — Sophocles

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. — Omar Khayyam

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin

Though every city shall he hunt her down,
Until he shall driven her back to Hell,
There from whence envy first did let her loose. — Dante Alighieri

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world? — Isaac Newton

to squirm my little space in the cosmic dust whence I came, — Jack London

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. — William Shakespeare

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. — Joseph Joubert

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. — Theodore Parker

In moments of doubt I cry, 'Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?'

'Whence then came thy dream?' answers Hope. — George MacDonald

Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe? — Geoffrey Chaucer

Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, we would as willingly give cure as know. — William Shakespeare

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself. — Mark Twain

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? — Boethius

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? — Herman Melville

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither. — Martin Heidegger

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few. — William Wordsworth

All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came. — Edgar Cayce

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came — Sophocles

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing. — Christopher Meloni

Do not forget from whence you've come. — Cory Booker

From whence cometh the pounding of desire if not from the depths of loneliness? — Martin Cosgrove

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you? — Edward Teach

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] — Juvenal

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. — James Baldwin

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth

Soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof. — George Eliot

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. — John Milton

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. — Ramsey Clark

A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose. — John Vance Cheney

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do. — Henry David Thoreau

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be. — Catulle Mendes

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. — Francis Bacon

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came. — Sophocles

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive. — Henry David Thoreau

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise. — Coventry Patmore

What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? — Mary Shelley

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. — John Milton

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. — Edmund Burke

Bethink yourself not whence you sprang, but who you are. — Livy

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? — Muhammad Iqbal

For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded. — Tom Tryon

For whence had that former sorrow so easily penetrated to the quick, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in loving one who must die? — Augustine Of Hippo

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word ... — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. — Francis Bacon

Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward. — Jessica Simpson

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. — Jean Paul

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay

The fool worries, thinking, "I have sons, I have wealth." Indeed, when he himself is not his own, whence are sons, whence is wealth? — Gautama Buddha

The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come. — Alfred Rosenberg