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  • I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

    Stars   Tree   Listening  
    Charles Hanson Towne, “Silence”
  • Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

    Widows   Married   Thrice  
  • 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.

  • Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

    Witty   Fun   Lying  
    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.232
  • He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

    Men   Two   Three  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.8, Arthur Schopenhauer
  • I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

  • France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

    Cutting   France   Thrice  
    George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.359
  • 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!

    War   Fighting   Men  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.
  • So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

    Angel   Flames   Voice  
    'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'
  • One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

    Real   Men   Gentleman  
  • Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

    Father   Blessed   Moon  
    William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162
  • Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

    Eye   Design   Spy  
    Hesiod (1822). “The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII”, p.43
  • Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

    Summer   Winter   Wish  
    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.927
  • I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

    Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.
  • If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.

    Drunk   Months   Drink  
    "Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule". Book by George Lane, 2009.
  • 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.

  • Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

    Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan
  • Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

    William Drummond (1856). “The Poetical Works”, p.85
  • The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

    War   Tyrants   Bed  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [230]
  • You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four

  • When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

    Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.37
  • 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.

    Warrior   Fire   Air  
  • Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

    Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.89
  • [On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.

    Land   Leaving   Soul  
  • What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just.

    Heart   Stronger   Arms  
    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.478
  • Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

    Blessed   Years   Sight  
    Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
  • By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

    Coffee   Book   Hot  
    "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.
  • They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

    Food   Lakes   Sea  
  • Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

    "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.
  • 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.

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