Quotes with who-though

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carlos Alazraqui For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
    Carlos Alazraqui
    American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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  • Francis Bacon For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Aristotle For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • A. R. Ammons For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Bernie Sanders Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
    Source: Idler
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    Source: A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bruce Nauman Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Alan Colmes Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
    Alan Colmes
     
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  • Plotinus God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • A. E. Housman Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
    Source: The Name and Nature of Poetry
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Virginia Graham Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
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  • James Russell Lowell Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • William Wordsworth Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bliss Carman Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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