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Whilst Quotes by Thomas de Quincey
- Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,…
- There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
More Whilst Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds… — Edmund Burke
- Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence… — William Gurnall
- Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are… — Varahamihira
- But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their… — William James
- It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes… — John Maynard Keynes
- Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show… — Arthur Schopenhauer
- It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we… — Max Beerbohm