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• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.
  Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?...
• The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest. -- Carlyle
• Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
  -- William Lilly...
• A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.
  I am for fumigating the atmosphere, when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me....
• He looked at me at though I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
• Six days after the Creation, Adam was still alone in the Garden of Eden, and getting pretty desperate.
  God!" he cried, "rescue me from loneliness and despair!...
• Let justice be done, though the heavens fall! -- Earl of Mansfield
• Of, excuse me, I though I was someone else for a moment.
• I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know i
  as I would be clean for my own sake, although nobody were to see me. -- Shaftesbury...