“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
“Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”
Omar Khayyam
“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
