#wholly

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. ↗

— Asa Gray

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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. ↗

— W. E. B. Griffin

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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other. ↗

— Larry Harvey

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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

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While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

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And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#christ #duty #either #forget #god

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

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