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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.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  '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.

-Bradstreet, Anne ne¤  e Dudley
  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.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  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.

-Fletcher (of Saltoun), Andrew
  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.

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

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

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  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.

-Inge,William Ralph
  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.

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

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

-Potter, Stephen
 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.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  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.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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?

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'Regum Ultimo Ratio'.

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