A Quote by Edward Young

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
English - Poet
July 3, 1683 - April 5, 1765

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

James Russell Lowell

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John Donne

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

George Herbert

And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

George Herbert

Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?

Pythagoras

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Terry Goodkind

I have been offered thrice to participate in 'Bigg Boss' and I rejected it everytime.

Manini Mishra

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

Francois Rabelais

I remember I would watch the same film thrice a day for an entire month.

Nidhhi Agerwal

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

Edmund Spenser

O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!

Ogden Nash

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

Richard Harris Barham

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.