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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. ↗

— William Godwin

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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. ↗

— Hippocrates

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Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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