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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.
Pierre Corneille
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham
Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
Samuel Johnson
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
William Penn
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life.
Beatrix Potter
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
William Blake
Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft
I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.
Charles I of England
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.
John Chrysostom
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
Walter Lang
The crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honour without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells; for it is the result of proved honour, rectitude, and consistency - qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.
Samuel Smiles
A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my memory.
John Diefenbaker
My conscience is my crown, Contented thoughts my rest; My heart is happy in itself, My bliss is in my breast. Enough I reckon wealth; A mean the surest lot, That lies too high for base contempt, Too low for envy's shot.
Robert Southwell
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
John Wycliffe
Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
Gloria Estefan
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan
Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down.
Elvis Costello
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