Quotes of Wholly - somelinesforyou

“ It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. ”

- Maya Lin

“ Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Virtues are acquired through endeavor,Which rests wholly upon yourself.So, to praise others for their virtuesCan but encourage one's own efforts. ”

- Nagarjuna

“ Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's vision to that which is wholly yours,… ”

- H.P. Lovecraft

“ A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. ”

- Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

- Thomas Carlyle

“ A heroic figure… not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. ”

- Ezra

“ A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. ”

- Raymond Spruance

“ And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses? ”

- Sir William Watson

“ As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are as 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

“ Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. ”

- Ezra

“ I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles. ”

- Karl Marx

“ I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. ”

- Horace

“ Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find. ”

- St. Catherine of Siena

“ Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. ”

- Robert Browning

“ Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ”

- John Adams

“ People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor. ”

- Sir William Temple

“ The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice — any choice will be the right one. ”

- A. W. Tozer

“ The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. ”

- Herbert Samuel

“ The world has yet to see what God will do with a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to the Holy Spirit. ”

- Henry Varley

“ There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. ”

- Samuel Johnson
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