Death is the origin of another life. [ Montaigne ]
A son of the earth; a man of obscure or low origin. [ Pers ]
Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. [ Pascal ]
None can give the dew but God; it comes from above, and is of celestial origin. [ Bishop Reynolds ]
Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its divine origin. [ Beecher ]
We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. [ Amiel ]
To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. (This is probably the origin of God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Good resolutions are a useless attempt to interfere with scientific laws; their origin pure vanity, their results absolutely nil. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself. [ Seneca ]
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud. [ Bovee ]
Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. [ G. H. Lewes ]
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. [ Lowell ]
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it; and with this I begin and end. [ John Newton ]
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. [ Madame de Sevigne ]