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  • I bind into myself today The strong name of theTrinity, By invocation of the same TheThree in One and One inThree.

    - Cecil Frances Alexander
      'St Patrick's Breastplate', his translation from the Irish.

  • The people arose as one man.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Judges 20:8.

  • Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes 4:9^10.

  • There isneither Jew nor Greek, there isneither bond nor free, there isneither malenor female: for yeareall onein Christ Jesus. 122

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Galatians 3:28.

  • If ever two were one, then surely we.

    - Anne ne  e Dudley Bradstreet
      Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of  Wit and Learning,'To My Dear and Loving Husband'.

  • 'That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.' 'It's the oldest rule in the book,'said the King. 'Then it ought to be Number One,'said Alice.

    -Dodgson
      Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.12, 'Alice's Evidence'.

  • Tous pour un, un pour tous. All for one, one for all.

    -Duncan
      Les Trois Mousquetaires, ch.9.

  • Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

    - RalphWaldo Emerson
      Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

  • This will be the issue of that darling Plea, of being one and not two; it will be turned upon the Scots with a Vengeance; and their 45 Scots Members may dance round to all Eternity, in thisTrap of their own making.

    - Andrew Fletcher (of Saltoun)
      State of the Controversy betwixt United and Separate Parliaments, a critique of the proposed Union.

  • Forgive,O Lord, my little jokes onThee And I'll forgiveThy great big one on me.

    - Robert Lee Frost
      'The Preacher', complete poem.

  • At one withthe One, it didn't meana thing besidea glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

    - (Henry) Graham Greene
      Brighton Rock, pt.1, ch.1.

  • It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

    -William Ralph Inge
      Outspoken Essays (first series),'Patriotism'.

  • Thus our twin souls in one shall grow, And teach the world new love, Redeem the age and sex, and show A flame fate dares not move: And courting death to be our friend, Our lives, together too, shall end.

    - Katherine ne  e Fowler Philips
      'To Mrs. M. A. at Parting'.

  • How tobe oneuphow tomakethe other manfeelthat something has gone wrong, however slightly.

    - Stephen Potter
     Lifemanship.

  • In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Of Heaven, Keegan speaking. John Bull's Other Island, act 4.

  •    The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Adonais, stanza 52.

  • Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask: was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young and so silly Stretched under the olive trees,Oh, world,Oh, death?

    - Sir Stephen Harold Spender
      'Regum Ultimo Ratio'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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