Amid
See Amidst.
In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.
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Amid Quotations
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Sophocles
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
Buffalo Bill
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Friedrich Schiller
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
Amid Translations
amid in German is inmitten
amid in Spanish is en medio de
amid in Swedish is mitt i
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