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Whence has come thy lasting power. Votes: 3

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. Votes: 3

Joseph Joubert

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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world? Votes: 3

Isaac Newton

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Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? Votes: 3

John Gay

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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? Votes: 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word... Votes: 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. Votes: 3

Francis Bacon

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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it. Votes: 3

Erwin Schrodinger

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne

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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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. Votes: 3

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? Votes: 3

Muhammad Iqbal

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In moments of doubt I cry, "Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?' "Whence then came thy dream?' answers Hope. Votes: 3

George MacDonald

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Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived? Votes: 3

William Butler Yeats

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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. Votes: 3

Max Planck

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"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? Votes: 3

William Wordsworth

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But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence. Votes: 3

William Cecil Dampier

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Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised. Votes: 3

Jean-Baptiste Say

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One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less." Votes: 3

John M. Tyler

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Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT? Votes: 3

Marshall McLuhan

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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 priest of the most authentic creed. Votes: 3

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. Votes: 3

Gottfried Leibniz

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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes. Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day. Votes: 3

John Dryden

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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. Votes: 3

William Cowper

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Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains: Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains? Votes: 3

John Townsend Trowbridge

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Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine. Votes: 3

George Herbert

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It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer.....that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them. Votes: 3

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists. Votes: 3

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place. Votes: 3

Jonathan Swift

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Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand. Votes: 3

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. Votes: 3

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Votes: 3

Thomas Carlyle

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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body. Votes: 3

Plato

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Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen? Votes: 3

Taliesin

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Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject." Votes: 3

Eusebius

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When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them. Votes: 3

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. Votes: 3

Isaac Barrow

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Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges. Votes: 3

Henry George

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Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made. Votes: 3

Delmore Schwartz

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Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on. Votes: 3

Samuel Beckett

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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice. Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne

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Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion. Votes: 3

Giordano Bruno

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Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God! Votes: 3

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

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Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end, Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state Votes: 3

Herman Melville

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You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity. Votes: 3

Bill W.

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Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that. Votes: 3

Catherine Marshall

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Virtue is the fount whence honor springs. Votes: 0

Christopher Marlowe

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Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Votes: 0

Christopher Marlowe

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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe? Votes: 0

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Love always has its price, come whence it may. Votes: 0

Guy de Maupassant

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Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why. Votes: 0

Omar Khayyam

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Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? Votes: 0

James Montgomery

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Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness. Votes: 0

James Joyce

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If it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness." Votes: 0

James Joyce

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The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come... Votes: 0

Zoroaster

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Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives? Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am. Votes: 0

Erwin Schrodinger

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People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. Votes: 0

Ramsey Clark

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The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] Votes: 0

Juvenal

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This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither. Votes: 0

Martin Heidegger

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False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. Votes: 0

Walter Raleigh

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Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward. Votes: 0

Jessica Simpson

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. Votes: 0

Jean Paul

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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!" Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee! Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise. Votes: 0

Coventry Patmore

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came. Votes: 0

Edgar Cayce

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. Votes: 0

Baron de Montesquieu

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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. Votes: 0

Charles de Secondat

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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell. Votes: 0

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. Votes: 0

Francis Atterbury

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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? Votes: 0

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. Votes: 0

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be. Votes: 0

Catulle Mendes

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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? Votes: 0

Boethius

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be. Votes: 0

Catulle Mendès

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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. Votes: 0

John Milton

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From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced. Votes: 0

Thomas Hobbes

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. Votes: 0

James A. Baldwin

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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? Votes: 0

Robin Hobb

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They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came. Votes: 0

Tania James

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution Votes: 0

Francis Bacon, Sr.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. Votes: 0

Rudolf Hiferding

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Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. Votes: 0

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. Votes: 0

John Milton

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It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal. Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose. Votes: 0

John Vance Cheney

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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? Votes: 0

George Lillo

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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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. Votes: 0

Alfred Rosenberg

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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. Votes: 0

Tom Tryon

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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. Votes: 0

Horatio Nelson

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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 Votes: 0

Sophocles

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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. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs. Votes: 0

John Lancaster Spalding

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Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger. Votes: 0

Nancy Gibbs

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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. Votes: 0

Christopher Meloni

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The 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. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing. Votes: 0

Omar Khayyam

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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. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. Votes: 0

Socrates

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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. Votes: 0

R. D. Laing

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Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews. Votes: 0

John Gay

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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. Votes: 0

Ramana Maharshi

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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? Votes: 0

Augustine of Hippo

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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. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help. Votes: 0

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu

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Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate. Votes: 0

Lydia M. Child

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What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came. Votes: 0

Carrie Chapman Catt

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The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives. Votes: 0

John Armstrong

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O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter. Votes: 0

George Arnold

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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town? Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown. Votes: 0

Amos Bronson Alcott

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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being. Votes: 0

Thomas Berry

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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad

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I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders. Votes: 0

Amerigo Vespucci

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In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes. Votes: 0

Lincoln Steffens

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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth. Votes: 0

Charles Churchill

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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

Conrad Aiken

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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

Guy de Maupassant

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In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.

Nicolaus Copernicus

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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

Victor Hugo

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Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

Romain Rolland

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How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.

Joseph Hall

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There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain.

William Blake

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The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.

Franz Bardon

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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.

George Mason

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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

John Locke

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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

Sophocles

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Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.

Lord Chesterfield

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If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.

David Hume

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Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.

Dion Fortune

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... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

Maria W. Stewart

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We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.

Charles Simeon

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Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.

Robert Southey

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

Alexander Pope

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These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.

John Locke

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Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover

Walter Raleigh

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Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout? And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

Thomas B. Macaulay

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Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

John Calvin

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'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

Dwight L. Moody

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The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

William Gurnall

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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

Robert E. Howard

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Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.

Francis Quarles

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A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

Sir Fulke Greville

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Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

Bill Watterson

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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

Umberto Eco

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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise

Victor Turner

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The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.

Iamblichus

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I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.

Joseph Fielding Smith

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None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall never lose the door.

Thomas Boston

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We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Jeremy Bentham

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Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.

Karl von Frisch

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Deeply impressed with the blessing which we enjoy, and of which we have much manifold proofs, my mind is irresistibly drawn to that Almighty Being, the great source source from whence they proceed and whom our most grateful acknowledgements are due.

George W. Bush

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I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

Charlotte Bronte

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Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives its nourishment and life. There is no people that can live without land, as there is no tree which can live hanging in air.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

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Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Thomas Browne

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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Isaac D'Israeli

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O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.

William Watson

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The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.

Francis Quarles

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