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Whilst Quotations

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel Kant

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
Andrew Jackson

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
John Donne

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
John Owen

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

Whilst Translations

whilst in Afrikaans is terwyl, tydens, vir, gedurende
whilst in Danish is imitlertid
whilst in Dutch is gedurende, staande, onder, terwijl
whilst in Finnish is aikana
whilst in French is pendant, durant
whilst in Italian is laddove, durante
whilst in Portuguese is durante
whilst in Spanish is durante, mientras
whilst in Swedish is medans, medan