whole (n.)

whole (adv.)

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes xii. 13.

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Pittacus. ii.

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Old Testament: Isaiah i. 5.

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Old Testament: Isaiah i. 5.

Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat,

The mist in my face.

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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,

The heroes of old;

Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears

Of pain, darkness, and cold.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Prospice.

'T is not the whole of life to live,

Nor all of death to die.

James Montgomery (1771-1854): The Issues of Life and Death.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,

Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 267.

'T is but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 60.

The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

Old Testament: Isaiah iii. 1.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

New Testament: Matthew xvi. 26.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.