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Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
— Publilius Syrus
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
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
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
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
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 moldLie 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
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
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 inall things...this is peace. — Christine Horner
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
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
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
Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?
— Edward Teach
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
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
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 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
