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«If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?»
«Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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absolutely, came, limitations, whence
«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.»
Author: Kabbalah
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«Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.»
Author: Omar Khayyam
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whence
«I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men»
«Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed»
«David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.»
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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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.»
«Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who kn»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alas, chastisement, chastisements, gaol, resemblance, whence, who are you
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