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• Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Naked, Steel

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.478

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• There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.

  Empedocles

  Blessed, Long, Utterance

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• Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Fighting, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

  Francois Rabelais

  Food, Cooking, Four

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• The Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist] is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces. When the almighty and eternal God comes to us with all the perfection of His thrice holy humanity and His divinity, He surely does not come empty-handed.

  Angela of Foligno

  Holy Eucharist, Perfection, Humanity

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• I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American. Our flag shall then wave in glory over the ocean and our commerce feel no restraint but what our own government may impose. Happy thrice happy day. Thank God, to reach this envied state we need only to will. Yes my countrymen. Our destiny depends on our will. But if we would stand high on the record of time that will must be inflexible.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Ocean, Destiny, Government

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• Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse'  d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.

  John Webster

  Atheist, House, Soul

  1612 The White Devil, act 5, sc.6.

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• God abides in each commandment by His gracious power. "God is hidden in His commandments", says St. Mark the Ascetic. God helps everyone who strives to keep His commandments. That God abides in us we know by the Spirit, which He has given us. This means that a Christian is never alone, but that he lives and works together with the Thrice-Holy God.

  Justin Popovic

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Father, Pride

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.49, Scripture Truth

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• Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
  [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

  George Herbert

  Widows, Married, Persons

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• Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Warrior, Love Is, Blood

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan

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• You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Heart, Eye

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.26, Feiwel & Friends

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• The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire

  Alyson Noel

  Winter, Fire, Light

  Alyson Noel (2013). “Mystic”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mistake, Moving, People

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• Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order, thrice around your grave do bound, evil sink into the ground. I now invoke the law of three, this is my will, so mote it be.

  Christine Feehan

  Warrior, Fire, Air

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• There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  People, World, Legs

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.14, Anchor

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• Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

  Josh Billings

  Time, Blow, Four

  'Josh Billings, his Sayings' (1865).

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• Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

  Horace

  Anniversary, Wedding, Unbroken

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• Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

  Edmund Waller

  Humble, Arrows, Levels

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.53

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• The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Rudyard Kipling (2006). “From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel”, p.454, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Abortion, Pro Life, Soul

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• I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Cat, Blue, Owl

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Holy Grail' (1869) l. 862

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• You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.

  Fanny Burney

  Sarcastic, Women, Scotland

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• I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

  Gustav Mahler

  Austria, World, Homeless

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four

  Melanie

  Fool Me Once, Four, Fool

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