My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Thomas Browne
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
George Herbert
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
Thomas Traherne
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Thomas Hobbes
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
Nicolas Malebranche
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
Alfred de Vigny
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