Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Though all his works abroad, / The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God. Burns.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. Quinct.

Though an honourable title may be conveyed 10 to posterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness are a sort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred. (?)

Though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full. Denham.

Though great the force of little words, / Sped in an evil hour, / As great the might, and great the good, / Of one in Wisdom's power. M. W. Wood.

Though He comes in many shapes, / His love is throbbing in them all, / And from His love no soul escapes, / And from His mercy none can fall. Dr. W. Smith.

Though he says nothing, he pays it with thinking, like the Welshman's jackdaw. Pr.

Though He slay me, I shall yet trust in Him. 15 Bible.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. John Wesley.

Though justice be thy plea, consider this—/ That in the course of justice none of us / Should see salvation. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.