Quotes with whence

  • The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
  • Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

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  • Oliver Goldsmith 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.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Omar Khayyam Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Joseph Conrad 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.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Jean Paul Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Kabbalah Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
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  • Edmund Burke 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
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Boethius If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jan Van Ruysbroeck 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; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.
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  • John Donne Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Adam Ferguson Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • William Cowper Some men make gain a fountain whence proceeds
    A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
    Charity 244
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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